# The Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) (Amendment) Order 2016, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
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”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/557/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-and-reserve-forces-compensation-scheme-amendment-order-2016/note
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