Explanatory note

This Order amends the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/517)(“the principal Order”) which provides for benefits to be payable to or in respect of a person by reason of injury, illness or death, which is caused (wholly or partly) by service in the regular or reserve armed forces.

Article 2 amends the principal Order by inserting a meaning for the term “operative treatment”.

Article 3 amends Schedule 3 Table 2 of the principal Order by replacing the existing descriptors for non-freezing cold injuries with three new descriptors and adds a new bilateral complex injury descriptor that was awarded as a temporary award in June 2015.

Article 4 amends Schedule 3 Table 8 by inserting a meaning for the term “with complications”.