{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-variation-of-periodical-payments-order-2005/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-variation-of-periodical-payments-order-2005/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/841",
  "legislation_title": "The Damages (Variation of Periodical Payments) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-variation-of-periodical-payments-order-2005",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Defendant’s financial resources",
  "text": "Unless —\n(a) the defendant is insured in respect of the claim,\n(b) the source of payment under the order for periodical payments is a government or health service body within the meaning of section 2A(2) of the Act,\n(c) the payment is guaranteed under section 6 of or the Schedule to the Act, or\n(d) the order is made by consent and the claimant is neither a child nor a patient within the meaning of Part VII of the Mental Health Act 1983 or of Part VIII of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986,\nthe court will take into account the defendant’s likely future financial resources in considering whether to make a variable order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 20."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/595 (N.I. 4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/1898",
      "affecting_title": "The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/841/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:02:16.579202+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."
}