Cap. 104 Art. 17Provisions as to claims for, and supplementary provisions as to, payments for emergency treatment.

(1) The Authority for Transport in Malta shall, if so requested by a person who alleges that he is entitled to claim a payment under the last foregoing article, furnish to that person any information at his disposal as to the identification marks of any motor vehicle which that person alleges to be a vehicle out of the use of which the bodily injury arose, and as to the identity and address of the person who was using the vehicle at the time of the event out of which it arose.

(2) A claim for a payment under the last foregoing article may be made at the time when the emergency treatment is effected by oral request to the person who was using the vehicle, and if not so made must be made by request in writing served on him within state the name and address of the claimant, the circumstances in which the emergency treatment was effected, and that it was first effected by the claimant, or, in the case of a hospital, in the hospital.

(4) A request in writing may be served by delivering it to the person who was using the vehicle, or by sending it in a pre-paid registered letter addressed to him at his usual or last known address.

(5) A sum payable under the last foregoing article shall be recoverable as if it were a civil debt due from the person who was using the vehicle to the practitioner or the hospital.

(6) A payment made under the last foregoing article to a practitioner or hospital shall operate as a discharge, to the extent of the amount paid, of any liability of the person who was using the vehicle, or of any other person, to pay any sum in respect of the expenses or remuneration of the practitioner or hospital of or for effecting the emergency treatment.

(7) A payment under the last foregoing article shall not be deemed to be a payment by an authorized insurer or owner for the purposes of article 4(2).