{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-and-reserve-forces-compensation-scheme-order-2005-revoked-952011/article-27",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/439",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2005 (Revoked 9.5.2011)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-and-reserve-forces-compensation-scheme-order-2005-revoked-952011",
  "path": "article/27",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Amount of bereavement grant",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the amount of the bereavement grant payable in respect of the death of a person who was a member of the armed forces on the date of death is £25,000.\n(2) Where the person was a member of the AFPS 2005, the amount of the bereavement grant is the difference between the salary of the member of the armed forces on the date of death and the amount specified in paragraph (1).\n(3) Where a former member of the forces dies, the bereavement grant is £37,500.\n(4) In the event that there is more than one surviving spouse entitled to the bereavement grant, the amount to which each such surviving spouse is entitled shall be the amount payable at paragraphs (2) or (3), divided by the number of surviving spouses so entitled at the time of the death of the member or former member of the armed forces.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 27(1) substituted (3.8.2010) by The Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) (Amendment) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1723), arts. 1(1), 4(a) (with art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 27(1) substituted (3.8.2010) by The Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) (Amendment) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1723), arts. 1(1), 4(a) (with art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 27(2) substituted (3.8.2010) by The Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) (Amendment) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1723), arts. 1(1). {4(b)} (with art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 27(2) substituted (3.8.2010) by The Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) (Amendment) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1723), arts. 1(1), 4(c) (with art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in art. 27(4) substituted (30.6.2006) by The Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) (Amendment) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1438), arts. 1(2), 9"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/439/article/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:08:45.926081+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."
}