{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-redundancy-resettlement-and-gratuity-earnings-schemes-no-2-order-2010/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-redundancy-resettlement-and-gratuity-earnings-schemes-no-2-order-2010/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/832",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Redundancy, Resettlement and Gratuity Earnings Schemes) (No. 2) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-redundancy-resettlement-and-gratuity-earnings-schemes-no-2-order-2010",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Commitment periods",
  "text": "(1) A member of the armed forces (“L”) has a long service commitment if the length of L’s redundancy reckonable service (had such service in the armed forces lasted until the end of L’s commitment period) would have been—\n(a) where L is an officer—\n(i) at least 16 years after L reached the age of 21; or\n(ii) at least 18 years after L reached the age of 18;\n(b) where L is not an officer, at least 18 years after L reached the age of 18;\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) A member of the armed forces (“S”) has a short service commitment if the length of S’s redundancy reckonable service (had such service lasted until the end of S’s commitment period) is less than a long service commitment under paragraph (1).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 8(1)(c) omitted (28.2.2011) by virtue of The Armed Forces Redundancy Scheme 2006 and the Armed Forces Redundancy Etc. Schemes 2010 (Amendment) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/208), arts. 1, 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 8 in force at 6.4.2010, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/832/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:47:19.224084+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."
}