The Road Traffic Accidents (Payments for Treatment) Order 1987

• Citation: S.I. 1987/353
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic Accidents (Payments for Treatment) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 1st April 1987.

(2) In this Order“ the Act ” means the Road Traffic Act 1972 .

Section 2 Maximum payments for hospital treatment of traffic casualties

Subject to article 4 of this Order, in the proviso to section 154(1) of the Act (maximum amounts of payments under the subsection by authorised insurers or owners of vehicles for hospital treatment of traffic casualties as in-patients or out-patients) for the sum of £1,892.50 there shall be substituted the sum of £2,000.37, and for the sum of £189.25 there shall be substituted the sum of £200.04.

Section 3 Payments for emergency treatment of traffic casualties

Subject to article 4 of this Order, in section 155(1) of the Act (payments by users of vehicles of fees and mileage allowances in respect of emergency treatment) for the sum of £14.19 there shall be substituted the sum of £15.00, and for the sum of 28 pence there shall be substituted the sum of 29 pence.

Section 4 Application

The Order shall apply only where an accident giving rise to death or bodily injury in respect of which a payment is made under section 154 of the Act, or claimed under section 155 of the Act, occurred on or after the coming into force of this Order.

Section 5 Revocations

The Orders specified in the Schedule to this Order are hereby revoked.