{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-nhs-charges-amendment-scotland-regulations-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2005/123",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-nhs-charges-amendment-scotland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Regulations 1999 which provide for a scheme for the recovery from insurers and other persons of charges in connection with the treatment of road traffic casualties by the National Health Service.\nThe effect of the Regulations is to increase those charges in relation to incidents giving rise to treatment which occur on or after 1st April 2005.\nWhere a road traffic casualty receives NHS treatment but is not admitted to hospital the charge is increased from £473 to £483 in relation to incidents occurring on or after 1st April 2005.\nWhere a road traffic casualty receives NHS treatment and is admitted to hospital the daily charge is increased from £582 to £593 in relation to incidents occurring on or after 1st April 2005. The maximum charge which can be made for such treatment is increased from £34,800 to £35,500 in relation to incidents occurring on or after 1st April 2005.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/123/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:27:05.663240+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."
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