Commentary on Sections Miscellaneous and general Section 166: The Crown
349.This section provides that the scheme for recovery of NHS costs will extend to the Crown (i.e. the Queen and Government Departments) except, as a result of the definition of compensation payment in section 150(3)(a), in circumstances where the person concerned can have no legal liability. This applies, for example, to ex gratia payments made by or on behalf of the Queen in her personal capacity.