{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-injuries-nhs-charges-amounts-regulations-2015/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-injuries-nhs-charges-amounts-regulations-2015/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/295",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-injuries-nhs-charges-amounts-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Overpayments by compensators",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where—\n(a) one of the following applies—\n(i) the Secretary of State has made a redetermination of the relevant NHS charges in accordance with regulation 6(4),\n(ii) the Secretary of State has adjusted the amount of the relevant NHS charges in accordance with regulation 7, or\n(iii) as a result of a review under or by virtue of section 156, or an appeal under section 157 (appeal against a certificate or a waiver decision), a fresh certificate has been issued or a certificate has been revoked; and\n(b) in consequence of the redetermination, adjustment, review or appeal it appears that the amount of any relevant NHS charges paid by any person is more than the amount that the person ought to have paid.\n(2) Where paragraph (1) applies—\n(a) the Secretary of State must pay to the person who paid the relevant NHS charges the difference between the amount that has been paid and the amount that ought to have been paid (except where the Secretary of State requires a payment to be made under sub-paragraph (b)(iii)); and\n(b) where the Secretary of State has, under section 162 (payment of NHS charges to hospitals or ambulance trusts), paid the amount received to a relevant NHS body, the Secretary of State may—\n(i) deduct the difference between the amount that has been paid under section 162 and the amount that ought to have been paid (“the difference”) from any future payment due to the relevant NHS body under that section,\n(ii) require the relevant NHS body to pay the difference to the Secretary of State, or\n(iii) require the relevant NHS body to pay the difference to the person who paid the relevant NHS charges.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/295/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:33:40.545644+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."
}