{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-accident-payments-for-treatment-order-1995/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-accident-payments-for-treatment-order-1995/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/889",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Traffic Accident (Payments for Treatment) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-accident-payments-for-treatment-order-1995",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, application and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic Accidents (Payments for Treatment) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 17th April 1995.\n(2) This Order shall apply in relation to any case where, on or after 17th April 1995—\n(a) treatment is first received for the purposes of section 157(1)(a) of the Act, or\n(b) treatment or an examination is effected for the purposes of section 158(1) of the Act.\n(3) In this Order “the Act” means the Road Traffic Act 1988 .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 52; section 157(2) and subsection (2) of section 158(2) were amended by S.I. 1990/1364, 1991/2005, 1992/2402 and 1993/2474."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/889/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:12:13.186147+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."
}