Section 154: Payment for hospital treatment of traffic casualties

Road Traffic Act 1972 · 1972 c.20

Part VI: Third-Party Liabilities

154(2)

For the purposes of this section "expenses reasonably incurred " means—

(a) in relation to a person who receives treatment at a hospital as an in-patient, an amount for each day he is maintained in the hospital representing the average daily cost, for each in-patient, of the maintenance of the hospital and the staff thereof and the maintenance and treatment of the in-patients therein; and

(b) in relation to a person who receives treatment at a hospital as an out-patient, reasonable expenses actually incurred.

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