# The Armed Forces (Enhanced Learning Credit Scheme and Further and Higher Education Commitment Scheme) Order 2012, Article 7: Eligibility conditions in certain cases of attributable medical discharge

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) A service leaver who has not met conditions A to D of article 6 is eligible for payments under the ELC Scheme if conditions A to E of this article are met.
(2) Where this article applies any payment made under the ELC Scheme must be a lower tier payment.
(3) Condition A is that the service leaver is discharged on attributable medical grounds on or after 1st November 2010.
(4) Condition B is that the service leaver’s course of higher level learning commences before the entitlement time limit.
(5) Condition C is that the service leaver is a member of the ELC Scheme.
(6) Condition D is that the service leaver has completed Phase 1 and Phase 2 training.
(7) Condition E is that the service leaver is not applying for, or in receipt of, any other payment from public funds towards the costs of tuition fees for higher level learning unless such payment is either an individual resettlement training costs grant or is made under the FHEC Scheme.
(8) In this article “the entitlement time limit” means—
(a) for a service leaver who ceased to be a member of the armed forces before 1st April 2016, the tenth anniversary of their ceasing to be a member of the armed forces;
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(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
(d) for a service leaver discharged on attributable medical grounds on or after 1stApril 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1796/article/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-enhanced-learning-credit-scheme-and-further-and-higher-education-commitment-scheme-order-2012/article-7
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