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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/52",
  "legislation_title": "Armed Forces Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision with respect to the armed forces; and for connected purposes.\n[8th November 2006]\nBe it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act expires on 15.12.2022 by virtue of s. 382 (as substituted (15.12.2021) by Armed Forces Act 2021 (c. 35), ss. 1(1), 24(2)(a)) (subject to power to continue in s. 382(2)(3) as so substituted)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act modified (except for ss. 143, 156) (31.10.2009) by The Armed Forces (Naval Chaplains) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/826), reg. 3(1) (with reg. 2(c))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act restored (Isle of Man and Overseas Territories, except Gibraltar) (12.5.2016) by Armed Forces Act 2016 (c. 21), s. 13(1)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act continued until 15.12.2024 (11.10.2023) by The Armed Forces Act 2006 (Continuation) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1086), art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act continued until 15.12.2025 (6.11.2024) by The Armed Forces Act 2006 (Continuation) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/1120), art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act continued until 15.12.2026 (15.10.2025) by The Armed Forces Act 2006 (Continuation) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/1096), art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/52/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:24.063324+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}