(2) The Board must— 

(a) arrange for an assessment by a health care professional, and 

(b) provide that health care professional with any relevant information obtained under regulation 29 or otherwise in the possession of the Board. 

(3) The health care professional must— 

(a) so far as possible, assess the degree of relevant disablement of the deceased before death by doing one or more of the following— 

(i) considering any relevant information provided by the applicant or the Board; 

(ii) considering the report of another health care professional who has considered any relevant information or carried out an examination of the deceased, and 

(b) make a report to the Board— 

(i) specifying the assessed degree of relevant disablement, and 

(ii) reporting the reason for the assessment. 

(4) In this regulation, “relevant information” means information relevant to the decisions the health care professional is required to make. 

## Notification to the applicant 

17.  Following determination of eligibility for victims’ payments, the Board must as soon as reasonably practicable notify the applicant in writing of the following matters— 

(a) whether the applicant is eligible for victims’ payments; 

(b) any determination under regulation 12(3)(c); 

(c) the assessed degree of relevant disablement of the applicant or, as the case may be, the deceased; 

(d) in any case where an assessment is made under regulation 14, the interim period specified or extended; 

(e) a summary of the reasons for the matters in sub-paragraphs (a) to (d), and 

(f) the right to appeal. 

## Determination of amount of victims’ payments 

## PART 5 

## Payments 

18. —(1) If a person is entitled to victims’ payments, the Board must determine the amount of victims’ payments payable to the applicant. 

(2) The amount of victims’ payments payable to an applicant is the appropriate rate subject to any adjustment made in accordance with regulations 19 and 20. 

(3) The appropriate rate is the rate specified from time to time in column 2 of the table in Part 2 of Schedule 1 to The Naval, Military and Air Forces Etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 2006( a ) (weekly rates of pensions for disabled members of the armed forces of certain ranks) corresponding to the applicant’s degree of relevant disablement. 

(4) Where an interim assessment of the applicant’s degree of disablement has been made, for the duration of the interim period, the appropriate rate is the rate specified from time to time in column 2 of that table corresponding to the interim assessment of the applicant’s degree of relevant disablement. 

