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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2021-commencement-no-4-regulations-2022/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2022/1161",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces Act 2021 (Commencement No. 4) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2021-commencement-no-4-regulations-2022",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations bring into force sections 8 and 21 of the Armed Forces Act 2021 (c. 35) on 22nd November 2022, in so far as they are not already in force.\nSection 8 amends the Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52) to impose a new duty on specified persons or bodies to have due regard to the principles of the armed forces covenant when exercising relevant housing, education or healthcare functions in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\nSection 21 substitutes a new subsection (5) and (6) for subsection (5) of section 8 of the Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943 (c. 39 6 and 7 Geo. 6), which deals with the time limit for appeals.\nThree earlier Commencement Regulations, (S.I 2022/471 (C. 17)), (S.I. 2022/625 (C. 33)) and (S.I. 2022/1095 (C. 87)), were made before the date of these Regulations.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1161/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:53:51.052100+00:00"
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  "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."
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