C2C3Part VI Third-Party Liabilities

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General

C1161 Interpretation.

1

In this Part of this Act—

  • F1“hospital” means any institution which provides medical or surgical treatment for in-patients, other than—

    1. a

      a health service hospital within the meaning of the M2National Health Service Act 1977 or the M1National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978,

    2. b

      one which is a military hospital for the purposes of section 15 of the Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Act 1999, or

    3. c

      any institution carried on for profit,

  • “policy of insurance” includes a covering note,

  • “salvage” means the preservation of a vessel which is wrecked, stranded or in distress, or the lives of persons belonging to, or the cargo or apparel of, such a vessel, and

  • “under the owner’s control” means, in relation to a vehicle, that it is being driven by the owner or by a servant of the owner in the course of his employment or is otherwise subject to the control of the owner.

2

In any provision of this Part of this Act relating to the surrender, or the loss or destruction, of a certificate of insurance or certificate of security, references to such a certificate—

a

shall, in relation to policies or securities under which more than one certificate is issued, be construed as references to all certificates, and

b

shall, where any copy has been issued of any certificate, be construed as including a reference to that copy.

3

In this Part of this Act, any reference to an accident includes a reference to two or more causally related accidents.