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(1) This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic Accidents (Payments for Treatment) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st October 1991.
(2) This Order applies in relation to treatment given on or after 1st October 1991 to, and to an examination made on or after that date of, a person who dies or suffers bodily injury in respect of which a payment is made under section 157 or 158 of the Act.
(3) In this Order “the Act” means the Road Traffic Act 1988.
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In section 157(2) of the Act (maximum amounts of payments for hospital treatment of traffic casualties) for the sum of £2,546.00 there shall be substituted the sum of £2,667.00, and for the sum of £255.00 there shall be substituted the sum of £267.00.
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In section 158(2) of the Act (payments by users of vehicles of fees and mileage allowances to practitioners in respect of emergency treatment) for the sum of £18.20 there shall be substituted the sum of £19.30, and for the sum of 35 pence there shall be substituted the sum of 37 pence.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Stephen Dorrell
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Health
4th September 1991Michael Forsyth
Minister of State, Scottish Office
4th September 1991