Section 7: Effect of rules against settlement before medical report

Civil Liability Act 2018 · 2018 c. 29View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 1: Whiplash

The relevant regulator must ensure that it has appropriate arrangements for monitoring and enforcing compliance with the restrictions imposed on regulated persons by section 6.

The relevant regulator may make rules for the purposes of subsection (1).

The rules may in particular provide that, in relation to anything done in breach of section 6, the relevant regulator may exercise any powers that the regulator would have in relation to anything done by the regulated person in breach of another restriction (subject to subsections (5) and (6)).

Where the relevant regulator is the Financial Conduct Authority, section 8 applies instead of subsections (1) to (3).

A breach of section 6—

does not make a person guilty of an offence, and
does not give rise to a right of action for breach of statutory duty.

A breach of section 6 does not make an agreement to settle the whiplash claim in question void or unenforceable.

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