Personal Injuries Assessment Board Act 2003

Power to impose charges.

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22.F34[(1) The Board, with the consent of the Minister may, and if directed by the Minister to do so shall, make regulations enabling the Board to impose the charges referred to in subsection (2) in respect of the dealing by the Board with an application under section 11 in relation to a relevant claim.]

(2) Those charges are—

(a) a charge on the claimant of an amount specified in the regulations under subsection (1),

(b) a charge on the respondent or, as the case may be, each of the respondents of an amount F35[specified in those regulations,]

F36[(ba) a charge, additional to that referred to in paragraph (b), on the respondent or, as the case may be, each of the respondents of an amount specified in those regulations for failure to pay within the period provided for by those regulations, and]

(c) a charge, additional to that referred to in paragraph (b), on the respondent or, as the case may be, each of the respondents, for the purpose of defraying any amount of the expenses incurred by the Board, or on its behalf, in the making of the assessment concerned that, in its opinion, is of an exceptional kind.

(3) For the purpose of subsection (2)(c) and regulations under that provision—

(a) “an exceptional kind”, in relation to an amount, means an exceptional kind relative to the amounts of expenses typically incurred by the Board, or on its behalf, in the making of assessments,

(b) without prejudice to paragraph (a), any amount of expenses incurred by the Board, or on its behalf, in the arranging of, or the carrying out of, a medical examination referred to in section 24(2) is an amount of an exceptional kind.

F37[(4) Different amounts may be specified in regulations under subsection (1)

(a) for the purposes of subsection (2)(b)

(i) in relation to different classes of relevant claim, and

(ii) in relation to different stages of a relevant claim,

and

(b) for the purposes of subsection (2)(a) and (b) in relation to the submission of documents in electronic and paper form.]

(5) The Board may refuse to deal with an application under section 11 if a charge imposed by it pursuant to regulations under subsection (1) in relation to the application has not been paid to it.

(6) Any amount of charges imposed pursuant to regulations under subsection (1) may be recovered by the Board from the person concerned as a simple contract debt in any court of competent jurisdiction.

(7) Charges may be imposed pursuant to regulations under subsection (1) even though, before the making of an assessment of the claim would otherwise have fallen to be made under section 20, a settlement is entered into in respect of the relevant claim concerned.

F38[(7A) A respondent referred to in section 14(1) shall be liable to the Board for any and all charges incurred by the Board in respect of the respondent in relation to the relevant claim concerned pursuant to regulations made under this section.]

(8) In subsection (2) “respondent” includes a non-accepting respondent (within the meaning of section 34).

Annotations

Amendments:

F34

Inserted (14.12.2023) by Personal Injuries Resolution Board Act 2022 (42/2022), s. 11(a), S.I. No. 626 of 2023, art. 4(g).

F35

Substituted (14.12.2023) by Personal Injuries Resolution Board Act 2022 (42/2022), s. 11(b)(i), S.I. No. 626 of 2023, art. 4(g).

F36

Inserted (14.12.2023) by Personal Injuries Resolution Board Act 2022 (42/2022), s. 11(b)(ii), S.I. No. 626 of 2023, art. 4(g).

F37

Substituted (3.04.2019) by Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Act 2019 (3/2019), s. 5, S.I. No. 123 of 2019.

F38

Inserted (13.02.2023) by Personal Injuries Resolution Board Act 2022 (42/2022), s. 11(c), S.I. No. 28 of 2023.

Editorial Notes:

E10

Power pursuant to section exercised (11.04.2022) by Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. No. 124 of 2022), in effect as per reg. 2.

E11

Power pursuant to section exercised (1.09.2019) by Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. No. 363 of 2019), in effect as per reg. 3.

E12

Power pursuant to section exercised (1.01.2013) by Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. No. 523 of 2012), in effect as per reg. 2.

E13

Power pursuant to section exercised (1.02.2011) by Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 41 of 2011), in effect as per reg. 2.

E14

Power pursuant to section exercised (1.01.2008) by Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. No. 869 of 2007), in effect as per reg. 2; amended (1.02.2011) by Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 41 of 2011), in effect as per reg. 2.

E15

Power pursuant to section exercised (1.06.2006) by Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. No. 264 of 2006), in effect as per reg. 2.

E16

Power pursuant to section exercised (1.06.2004) by Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Fees) Regulations 2004 (S.I. No. 251 of 2004), in effect as per reg. 2; amended (1.06.2006) by Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. No. 264 of 2006), in effect as per reg. 2 and (1.01.2008) by Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. No. 869 of 2007), in effect as per reg. 2 and (1.02.2011) by Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 41 of 2011), in effect as per reg. 2.