{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-accidents-payments-for-treatment-order-1987/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-accidents-payments-for-treatment-order-1987/introduction.json",
  "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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ROAD TRAFFIC\nMade 5th March 1987\nLaid before Parliament 11th March 1987\nComing into force 1st April 1987\nThe Secretary of State for Social Services, as respects England and Wales, in exercise of powers conferred by section 5 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 1968 and now vested in him, and the Secretary of State for Scotland, as respects Scotland, in exercise of the said powers, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 14; Schedule 3, paragraph 8 was amended by Schedule 10, paragraph 3 to the Road Traffic Act 1972 (c. 20) so as to substitute in the said paragraph 8 references to sections 154 and 155 of the said Act of 1972."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See the Secretary of State for Social Services Order 1968 (S.I. 1968/1699), article 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/353/introduction",
    "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."
}