{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-accidents-payments-for-treatment-order-1991/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2005",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Traffic Accidents (Payments for Treatment) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-accidents-payments-for-treatment-order-1991",
  "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 1991 and shall come into force on 1st October 1991.\n(2) This Order applies in relation to treatment given on or after 1st October 1991 to, and to an examination made on or after that date of, a person who dies or suffers bodily injury in respect of which a payment is made under section 157 or 158 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; subsection (2) of section 157 and subsection (2) of section 158 were amended by S.I. 1990/1364."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2005/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:38:25.134151+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."
}