{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-enhanced-learning-credit-scheme-and-further-and-higher-education-commitment-scheme-amendment-order-2016/article-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/310",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Enhanced Learning Credit Scheme and Further and Higher Education Commitment Scheme) (Amendment) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-enhanced-learning-credit-scheme-and-further-and-higher-education-commitment-scheme-amendment-order-2016",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of article 7 (eligibility conditions in certain cases of attributable medical discharge)",
  "text": "(1) Article 7 of the 2012 Order is amended as follows.\n(2) For article 7(4) substitute—\n“(4) Condition B is that the service leaver’s course of higher level learning commences before the entitlement time limit.”.\n(3) After article 7(7) insert—\n“(8) In this article “the entitlement time limit” means—\n(a) for a service leaver who ceased to be a member of the armed forces before 1st April 2011, the tenth anniversary of their ceasing to be a member of the armed forces;\n(b) subject to sub-paragraph (d), for a service leaver who ceased to be a member of the armed forces on or after 1st April 2011 and not later than 31st March 2016, 31st March 2021;\n(c) subject to sub-paragraph (d), for a service leaver who ceases to be a member of the armed forces on or after 1st April 2016, the fifth anniversary of their ceasing to be a member of the armed forces; and\n(d) for a service leaver discharged on attributable medical grounds on or after 1st April 2011 who receives a disablement pension or a guaranteed income payment, the tenth anniversary of their ceasing to be a member of the armed forces.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/310/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:26:02.317015+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."
}