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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-scheme-etc-amendment-order-2006/article-13",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/717",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces Pension Scheme etc. (Amendment) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-scheme-etc-amendment-order-2006",
  "path": "article/13",
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  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Evidence required for payments under the Armed Forces Early Departure Payments Scheme Order 2005",
  "text": "In article 16 of the Armed Forces Early Departure Payments Scheme Order 2005 (lump sum awards: incapacity for armed forces service) for paragraph (1)(a) substitute—\n“(a) in the opinion of the Secretary of State the person is unfit for service as a member of the armed forces because of physical or mental impairment,\n(aa) the Secretary of State has received evidence from a registered medical practitioner of that unfitness,”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/437."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/717/article/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:34:25.508382+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."
}