# The National Health Service (Injury Benefits) Regulations 1995, Regulation 3: Persons to whom the regulations apply


(1) Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations apply to any person who, while he—
(a) is in the paid employment of an employing authority;
(b) is a practitioner;
(c) holds an appointment with an employing authority the terms of which declare it to be honorary; or
(d) holds an appointment as a member of such body constituted under the National Health Service Act 1977 as the Secretary of State may approve,
(hereinafter referred to in this regulation as “his employment”), sustains an injury, or contracts a disease, to which paragraph (2) applies.
(2) This paragraph applies to an injury which is sustained and to a disease which is contracted in the course of the person’s employment and which is attributable to his employment and also to any other injury sustained and, similarly, to any other disease contracted, if—
(a) it is attributable to the duties of his employment;
(b) it is sustained while, as a volunteer at an accident or emergency, he is providing health services which his professional training and code of conduct would require him to volunteer; or
(c) it is sustained while he is travelling as a passenger in a vehicle to or from his place of employment with the permission of employing authority and if in addition—
(i) he was under no obligation to the employing authority to travel in the vehicle but, if he had been, the injury would have been sustained in the course of, and have been attributable to, his employment, and
(ii) at the time of the injury the vehicle was being operated, otherwise than in the ordinary course of a public transport service, by or on behalf of the employing authority or by some other person by whom it was provided in pursuance of arrangements made with the authority.
(3) These Regulations shall not apply to any person in relation to any injury or disease wholly or mainly due to, or seriously aggravated by, his own culpable negligence or misconduct.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/866/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-injury-benefits-regulations-1995/regulation-3
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