{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-personal-injury-order-2017/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-personal-injury-order-2017/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/206",
  "legislation_title": "The Damages (Personal Injury) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-personal-injury-order-2017",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order prescribes minus 0.75 per cent as the rate of return which, under section 1 of the Damages Act 1996, courts are required to take into account when calculating damages for future pecuniary loss in an action for personal injury.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/206/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:14:42.153368+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}