{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-redundancy-scheme-order-2006/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-redundancy-scheme-order-2006/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/55",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces Redundancy Scheme Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-redundancy-scheme-order-2006",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Limit on article 5 payment where leaver has full AFPS 2005 entitlement",
  "text": "If a person who is entitled to a payment under article 5—\n(a) is entitled to count at least 40 years' reckonable service for the purposes of the AFPS 2005 when his service ceases, or\n(b) would be so entitled if he were a member of that Scheme in relation to the service that is ceasing,\nthe amount of the lump sum payable to him under article 5 must not exceed one half of his final relevant earnings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/55/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:39:31.274178+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."
}