{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/523",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces Pension (Amendment) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-amendment-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Armed Forces Early Departure Payments Scheme Order 2005",
  "text": "(1) The Armed Forces Early Departure Payments Scheme Order 2005 is amended as follows.\n(2) In article 9 (entitlement to early departure payments)—\n(a) in paragraph (2) for “paragraph (3)” substitute “paragraphs (3) and (6)”;\n(b) after paragraph (5) insert—\n“(6) If on a review under regulation 58 of the AFP Regulations 2014 (member’s request for review of ill-health awards), a person entitled to payments under this article becomes entitled to a pension under regulation 52 (entitlement to ill-health pension: active member with significant impairment of capacity for gainful employment) of the AFP Regulations 2014, then that person ceases to have any entitlement under this article from the date the pension under regulation 52 becomes payable.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/437, amended by S.I. 2015/568; there are other amending instruments but none are relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/523/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:01:21.464562+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."
}