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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pensions-amendment-regulations-2024/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2024/491",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pensions-amendment-regulations-2024",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Armed Forces Pension Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2336)(“the 2014 Regulations”).\nRegulation 3 inserts a new definition in regulation 3 of the 2014 Regulations.\nRegulation 4 amends regulation 25 of the 2014 Regulations to ensure that the index supplement created by regulation 5 is added to affected members’ pension accounts.\nRegulation 5 inserts a new regulation 25A in the 2014 Regulations which creates an index supplement to provide additional pension benefits to members affected by errors made in the Public Service Pensions Revaluation Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/276) and the Public Service Pensions Revaluation Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/215) (“the relevant orders”).\nRegulation 6 amends regulation 26 of the 2014 Regulations to ensure that appropriate definitions apply to new regulation 26A (calculation of “retirement index supplement”).\nRegulation 7 inserts a new regulation 26A in the 2014 Regulations which creates a retirement index supplement to provide additional pension benefits to members affected by errors made in the relevant orders who retired during the scheme years beginning on 1st April 2020 or 1st April 2021.\nA full impact assessment has not been completed for these Regulations as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/491/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:31:11.619837+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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