The Road Traffic (Health Services Charges) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Payments to hospitals

9.—(1) The Department—

(a) shall make any payment under section 35(1) (payment to responsible body) not later than 40 days after the day it receives a payment of health services charges;

(b) may take more than one such payment at the same time; and

(c) may do so by automatic credit transfer.

(2) In respect of each payment the Department shall send to the responsible body a statement showing—

(a) the name and address of the traffic casualty in respect of whom the payment is made;

(b) the amount of the payment; and

(c) the date of the incident in respect of which the payment is made.

(3) Where—

(a) the Department receives a payment of health services charges under section 23(2); and

(b) the responsible body of the hospital concerned (“the old body”) has ceased to exist, the Department shall pay the amount received to the body to which the property, rights and liabilities of the old body have been transferred(1).

(4) If the property rights and liabilities of the old body have been transferred to more than one body, the Department, may, for the purposes of paragraph (3) divide the payment among those bodies in such manner as it considers appropriate.

(1)

See the Health and Personal Social Services (Residual Liabilities) (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1636 (N.I. 13))