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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-and-reserve-forces-compensation-scheme-amendment-order-2016/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/557",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) (Amendment) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-and-reserve-forces-compensation-scheme-amendment-order-2016",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis 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.\nArticle 2 amends the principal Order by inserting a meaning for the term “operative treatment”.\nArticle 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.\nArticle 4 amends Schedule 3 Table 8 by inserting a meaning for the term “with complications”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/557/note",
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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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