NHS Redress (Wales) Measure 2008 (nawm 1)
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be included in an offer of redress made in accordance with the regulations;
- (b) must, if they do not specify a limit under paragraph (a), specify an upper limit on the amount of financial compensation that may be included in such an offer in respect of pain and suffering;
- (c) may not specify any other limit on what may be included in such an offer by way of financial compensation.
3Accessing redress
- (1) The regulations may make such provision as the Welsh Ministers think fit about accessing redress.
- (2) The regulations may, in particular, make provision—
- (a) about who may access redress;
- (b) about how redress may be accessed;
- (c) for time limits in relation to accessing redress;
- (d) about circumstances in which redress may not be accessed.
4Duty to consider the potential application of redress arrangements
- (1) The regulations may make such provision as the Welsh Ministers think fit requiring any body or person mentioned in subsection (2)—
- (a) to consider, in such circumstances as the regulations may provide, whether a case that the body or person is investigating or reviewing involves liability for which redress may be available, and
- (b) if it appears that it does, to take such steps as the regulations may provide.
- (2) The bodies or persons referred to in subsection (1) are—
- (a) any body or person to whose liability the regulations apply;
- (b) any other body or person prescribed by the Welsh Ministers in the regulations.
5Method of delivering redress
- (1) Subject to subsections (3) to (6), the regulations may make such provision as the Welsh Ministers think fit regarding how redress is delivered.
- (2) The regulations may, in particular, make provision—
- (a) regarding the investigation of applications for redress made under the regulations (including provision for the overseeing of the investigation by an individual of a specified description);
- (b) regarding the form and content of settlement agreements under the regulations;
- (c) for settlement agreements under the regulations to be subject in cases of a specified description to approval by a court;
