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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-scheme-and-armed-forces-early-departure-payments-scheme-amendment-order-2014/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-scheme-and-armed-forces-early-departure-payments-scheme-amendment-order-2014/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2958",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces Pension Scheme and Armed Forces Early Departure Payments Scheme (Amendment) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-scheme-and-armed-forces-early-departure-payments-scheme-amendment-order-2014",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment to article 4 (meaning of “relevant service”) of the EDP Order 2005",
  "text": "Article 4 (meaning of “relevant service”) of the EDP Order 2005 is amended by—\n(a) numbering the existing text as (1),\n(b) in sub-paragraph (f) for “sub-paragraph (g)” substituting “paragraph (2)”,\n(c) for sub-paragraph (g) substituting—\n“(2) Subject to paragraph (3), for the purposes of paragraph 1(f)—\n(a) a period of service is only to be regarded as relevant service where—\n(i) the person has exercised the option to aggregate that period of service with current service for pensions purposes under Part G of the Armed Forces Pension Scheme Order 2005, and\n(ii) the person has not received any payments in respect of a pension payable under AFPS 1975 in respect of that period of service.\n(3) For the purposes of assessing entitlement to a resettlement grant under article 14 paragraph (2) does not apply.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2958/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:57:21.641406+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."
}