# The Armed Forces Early Departure Payments Scheme Order 2005, Article 9: Entitlement to early departure payments


(1) A person who is eligible to become entitled to payments under this article in accordance with article 8 (an “eligible person”) becomes so entitled as from the time when he ceases to be in service as mentioned in article 8(3).
(2) An eligible person is entitled under this article—
(a) to a lump sum payment, and
(b) to periodical payments in respect of the period beginning with the day following that on which he so ceases and ending with the day before his 65th birthday.
This is subject to paragraph (3) and article 12.
(3) A person is not entitled to a lump sum under this article if he has previously received a lump sum under this article that he was liable to repay under article 12(6) and has not repaid it.
(4) The lump sum is payable before the expiry of the period of 3 months beginning with the day on which the person ceases to be in service as mentioned in article 8(3).
(5) The periodical payments are to be made at monthly intervals in arrears.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/437/article/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-early-departure-payments-scheme-order-2005/article-9
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.