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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-accidents-payments-for-treatment-order-1987/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/353",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Traffic Accidents (Payments for Treatment) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-accidents-payments-for-treatment-order-1987",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic Accidents (Payments for Treatment) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 1st April 1987.\n(2) In this Order“the Act” means the Road Traffic Act 1972.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 20."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/353/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:31:16.694797+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."
}