{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-accidents-payments-for-treatment-order-1991/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-accidents-payments-for-treatment-order-1991/introduction.json",
  "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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ROAD TRAFFIC\nMade 4th September 1991\nLaid before Parliament 10th September 1991\nComing into force 1st October 1991\nThe Secretary of State for Health, 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 those powers, and, in each case, in exercise 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; item 8 in Schedule 3 now refers to sections 157 and 158 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52). Under paragraph 3 of Schedule 10 to the Road Traffic Act 1972 (c. 20) the reference to sections 212 and 213 of the Road Traffic Act 1960 (c. 16) were construed as referring to the corresponding provisions of the 1972 Act. The relevant provisions of the 1972 Act were repealed by Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988 (c. 54), and, by section 2(4) of that Act of 1988, the references to the relevant provisions of the 1972 Act are to be read as references to the corresponding provisions of the Road Traffic Act 1988."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "By article 5(4) of the Secretary of State for Social Services Order 1968 (S.I. 1968/1699) the reference to the Minister of Health in item 8 in Schedule 3 to the 1968 Act is a reference to the Secretary of State; see also article 2 of the Transfer of Functions (Health and Social Security) Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/1843)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2005/introduction",
    "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."
}