Personal Injuries Assessment Board Act 2003

Enforceability of assessment.

38.—(1) Within one month after an assessment becomes binding on the claimant and the respondent or, as the case may be, each of the respondents the Board shall issue to the respondent or each of the respondents a document (in this Act referred to as an “order to pay”).

(2) An order to pay shall state that the respondent to whom it is issued is liable to pay to the claimant the amount of damages specified in the assessment together with the amount, if any, directed to be paid under section 44 or 45 or both those sections.

(3) If the assessment is binding on more than one respondent, the liability of the respondents for payment of that amount or those amounts shall be joint and several and an order to pay shall include a statement to that effect.