{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-early-departure-payments-scheme-order-2005/article-2",
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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/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Establishment of the Armed Forces Early Departure Payments Scheme",
  "text": "(1) This Order provides for a Scheme to be known as “the Armed Forces Early Departure Payments Scheme”.\n(2) The Scheme provides for—\n(a) entitlement to a lump sum payment and periodical payments when membership of the armed forces ceases and certain conditions as to age and service are met (see articles 8 to 13), and\n(b) entitlement to a lump sum payment where those conditions are not met but at the time membership of the armed forces ceases the member—\n(i) meets certain conditions as to length of service (see article 14), or\n(ii) is unfit for service as such a member (see article 16).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2023/998",
      "affecting_title": "The Armed Forces Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations 2023"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/437/article/2",
    "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."
}