{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-early-departure-payments-scheme-order-2005/article-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-early-departure-payments-scheme-order-2005/article-13.json",
  "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/13",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Effect of emergencies etc.",
  "text": "(1) This article applies where a person who would be entitled to payments under article 9 if he had ceased to be in service as mentioned in article 8(3) on the relevant date does not cease to be in such service on that date by reason only of—\n(a) circumstances which in the opinion of the Secretary of State amount to an emergency, or\n(b) his being a prisoner of war on that date.\n(2) The person is treated for the purposes of articles 8 to 12 as having ceased to be in service on the relevant date.\n(3) In this article “the relevant date” means—\n(a) in the case of a person who was to have ceased to be in service on the date his commitment ended, that date,\n(b) in the case of a person who agreed to continue in service after his commitment ended until the age of 55, the day before that on which he reached that age, and\n(c) in the case of a person not within sub-paragraph (a) or (b) who was notified that a particular date was to be the last day of his service, that date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/437/article/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:08:51.073833+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."
}