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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-regulations-2014/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-regulations-2014/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2336",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces Pension Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-regulations-2014",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations establish a career average revalued earnings scheme for the payment of pensions and other benefits in respect of a person’s service in the armed forces.\nPart 2 contains governance provisions including establishment of the Scheme Management Board and delegation of the scheme manager’s functions.\nPart 3 provides for scheme membership. It provides for the key concepts of scheme employment, active membership period, pensionable earnings and qualifying service. It contains eligibility and enrolment provisions.\nPart 4 provides for members’ pension accounts.\nChapter 1 explains how the amount of accrued pension is calculated.\nChapter 3 provides for the establishment of the active member’s account. This Chapter shows how the proportion of pensionable earnings accrued as pension is revalued each year until the member leaves pensionable service.\nChapter 4 provides for the establishment of the deferred member’s account and explains how the provisional amount of deferred pension is calculated.\nChapter 5 provides for the establishment of a pension member’s account.\nChapter 6 provides for the establishment of a pension credit member’s account.\nPart 5 provides for a member’s entitlement to payment of retirement benefits. It also provides for the allocation of benefits.\nPart 6 provides for death benefits. It provides for the recovery and suspension of benefits in certain cases.\nPart 7 provides for the payment of contributions to purchase added pension by members.\nPart 8 provides for payment and receipt of transfer payments.\nPart 9 provides for actuarial valuations and employer cost cap.\nPart 10 contains supplementary provisions on payment of pensions, payment and deduction of tax and miscellaneous provisions including the determination of questions.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2336/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:04:13.886265+00:00"
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  "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."
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