{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-existing-liabilities-scheme-england-regulations-2018/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-existing-liabilities-scheme-england-regulations-2018/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/755",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Existing Liabilities Scheme) (England) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-existing-liabilities-scheme-england-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Payments out of the Scheme",
  "text": "(1) Where a payment falls to be made by an eligible body in connection with a claim in respect of a liability to which the Scheme applies, the Secretary of State may pay to that body or on that body’s behalf an amount determined by the Secretary of State under regulation 7.\n(2) Except to such extent as the Secretary of State may determine, no payment may be made under paragraph (1) in respect of the following—\n(a) any liability admitted by an eligible body without first obtaining the Secretary of State’s written consent;\n(b) any liability determined by a Court in proceedings which are conducted by an eligible body otherwise than in consultation with the Secretary of State;\n(c) any payment falling to be made by an eligible body where the body has not complied with any condition imposed by the Secretary of State relating to a claim;\n(d) any payment falling to be made by an eligible body where, without first obtaining the Secretary of State’s written consent, the eligible body agrees—\n(i) to be bound by the determination of any person or body as to the making of a payment by that eligible body in respect of a liability; or\n(ii) to make any other payment in respect of the liability otherwise than in the course of legal proceedings or in consequence of a settlement of legal proceedings agreed to by that eligible body.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/755/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:56:25.080543+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."
}