
1 

(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.
2 
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.
3 
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.
4 
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.
5 
The Orders specified in the Schedule to this Order are hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services
Edwina Currie
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Health and Social Security
3rd March 1987Glenarthur
Minister of State, Scottish Office
5th March 1987
SCHEDULE
Article 5


Orders Revoked References
The Road Traffic Accidents (Payments for Treatment) (England and Wales) Order 1980 SI 1980/111
The Road Traffic Accidents (Payments for Treatment) (Scotland) Order 1980 SI 1980/295
The Road Traffic Accidents (Payments for Emergency Treatment) (England and Wales) Order 1981 SI 1981/929
The Road Traffic Accidents (Payments for Treatment) (Scotland) Order 1981 SI 1981/976
The Road Traffic Accidents (Payments for Treatment) (England and Wales) Order 1982 SI 1982/1194
The Road Traffic Accidents (Payments for Treatment) (Scotland) Order 1982 SI 1982/1252
The Road Traffic Accidents (Payments for Treatment) (England and Wales) Order 1985 SI 1985/202
The Road Traffic Accidents (Payments for Treatment) (Scotland) Order 1985 SI 1985/281