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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-early-departure-payments-scheme-order-2005/article-11",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/437",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces Early Departure Payments Scheme Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-early-departure-payments-scheme-order-2005",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Increases for inflation",
  "text": "(1) Apart from any adjustment required by article 7, no other adjustment for inflation is to be made in determining the amount of any payment to be calculated in accordance with article 10(1) or (7).\n(2) But in determining the annual amount of the payments calculated in accordance with article 10(6) when a person attains the age of 55, the amount of the person’s final relevant earnings is adjusted for inflation.\n(3) The reference in paragraph (2) to adjusting for inflation the amount of the person’s final relevant earnings is to increasing it by the same amount as that by which an annual pension of an amount equal to those earnings would have been increased under the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 when the person attained the age of 55 if the pension—\n(a) were eligible to be so increased, and\n(b) had come into payment on the first day after the person ceased to be in service as mentioned in article 8(3).\n(4) In determining the annual amount of the payments calculated in accordance with article 10(6) at any time after the person attains the age of 55, it is to be assumed that those payments—\n(a) are payments of a pension eligible to be increased under the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971, and\n(b) came into payment when the person attained the age of 55,\nand those payments are to be increased accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/544",
      "affecting_title": "The Armed Forces Pension Scheme etc. (Amendment) Order 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for art. 11(2)-(4)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/544",
      "affecting_title": "The Armed Forces Pension Scheme etc. (Amendment) Order 2009"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/437/article/11",
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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."
}