Reduction of compensation: complex cases
Payments by more than one person21
1
Regulations may make provision (including provision modifying this Order) for any case in which two or more persons ( “the compensators”) make compensation payments to or in respect of the same injured person in consequence of the same accident, injury or disease.
2
In such a case, the sum of the liabilities of the compensators under Article 8 is not to exceed the total amount of the recoverable benefits, and the regulations may provide for determining the respective liabilities under that Article of each of the compensators.
3
The regulations may (among other things) provide in the case of each compensator—
a
for determining or re-determining the part of the recoverable benefits which may be taken into account in his case,
b
for calculating or recalculating in accordance with Article 10F1or 10A the amount of any compensation payment,
c
for giving credit for amounts already paid, and
d
for the payment by any person of any balance or the recovery from any person of any excess.