{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-accidents-payments-for-treatment-order-1990/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-accidents-payments-for-treatment-order-1990/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1364",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Traffic Accidents (Payments for Treatment) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-accidents-payments-for-treatment-order-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order increases the amounts payable under sections 157(2) and 158(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988. Section 157 provides for payments for hospital treatment of traffic casualties to be made by an owner or insurer of a vehicle the use of which gave rise to the injuries, and section 158 for payments, to be made by the person using such a vehicle, for emergency treatment and a medical practitioner’s travelling expenses.\nThe maximum amounts payable for hospital treatment are increased from £2,000.37 to £2,546.00 for persons treated as in-patients, and from £200.04 to £255.00 for persons treated as out-patients.\nFor emergency treatment the fee is increased from £15.00 to £18.20. For travelling expenses, the amount for each mile in excess of two covered by a practitioner to provide such treatment is increased from 29 pence to 35 pence.\nThe increases apply in respect of treatment given on or after 1st August 1990.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1364/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:16:32.996191+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."
}