{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2021/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2021/schedule-1/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/35",
  "legislation_title": "Armed Forces Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2021",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Number and rank of the lay members",
  "text": "(1) Section 157 of AFA 2006 (officers and warrant officers ineligible for membership in particular circumstances) is amended as follows.\n(2) In the heading, for “and warrant officers” substitute “etc”.\n(3) In subsection (2), after “warrant officer” insert “or OR-7 rank”.\n(4) In subsection (4), for “or warrant officer” substitute “, warrant officer or OR-7 rank”.\n(5) At the end insert—\n“(5) In this section “OR-7 rank” has the meaning given by section 155(9).”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 3 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 24(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 3 in force at 1.5.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/471, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 3 in force at 1.1.2023 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2022/1095, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/35/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:57:58.432340+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."
}