Propose a change

The Armed Forces Early Departure Payments Scheme Regulations 2014

Write the words of this act the way you think they should read. Solon shows your change as a redline against the published text and pins it to that exact text, so it can never be applied to wording you did not see.

Change 1

What to do with it
As published

16 Entitlement to a resettlement grant

(1) A person who ceases to be in service as a member of the regular forces is entitled to a lump sum payment (a resettlement grant) if the person— (a) has at least 12 years’ qualifying service in the regular forces, (b) is not entitled to payments under regulations 9 (entitlement to early departure payments), 19 (lump sum awards: incapacity for armed forces service) or the immediate payment of a pension under— (i) regulation 43 (retirement on or after normal pension age - active members) of the AFPS 14 regulations, or (ii) regulation 51 (entitlement to ill-health pension: active members with permanent serious ill-health) of the AFPS 14 regulations, or (iii) regulation 52 (entitlement to ill-health pension: active members with significant impairment of capacity for gainful employment) of the AFPS 14 regulations, or (c) either— (i) has not previously received a payment under this regulation or the corresponding provisions, or (ii) is not an active member of the AFPS 75 or the AFPS 05. (2) In this regulation “the corresponding provisions” means— (a) article 14 of the Armed Forces Early Departure Payments Order 2005, or (b) paragraphs 13 to 18 of Schedule XIII to the Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions (Non-Effective Benefits and Family Provisions) Order 2004, or (c) regulations 67 to 70 or 167A and 167B of the Army Pensions Warrant 1977, or (d) regulation 3063 of the Queen’s Regulations for the Royal Air Force; and (e) any earlier or later provisions corresponding to those mentioned in sub-paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d).

Your change, as a redline

16 Entitlement to a resettlement grant

(1) A person who ceases to be in service as a member of the regular forces is entitled to a lump sum payment (a resettlement grant) if the person— (a) has at least 12 years’ qualifying service in the regular forces, (b) is not entitled to payments under regulations 9 (entitlement to early departure payments), 19 (lump sum awards: incapacity for armed forces service) or the immediate payment of a pension under— (i) regulation 43 (retirement on or after normal pension age - active members) of the AFPS 14 regulations, or (ii) regulation 51 (entitlement to ill-health pension: active members with permanent serious ill-health) of the AFPS 14 regulations, or (iii) regulation 52 (entitlement to ill-health pension: active members with significant impairment of capacity for gainful employment) of the AFPS 14 regulations, or (c) either— (i) has not previously received a payment under this regulation or the corresponding provisions, or (ii) is not an active member of the AFPS 75 or the AFPS 05. (2) In this regulation “the corresponding provisions” means— (a) article 14 of the Armed Forces Early Departure Payments Order 2005, or (b) paragraphs 13 to 18 of Schedule XIII to the Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions (Non-Effective Benefits and Family Provisions) Order 2004, or (c) regulations 67 to 70 or 167A and 167B of the Army Pensions Warrant 1977, or (d) regulation 3063 of the Queen’s Regulations for the Royal Air Force; and (e) any earlier or later provisions corresponding to those mentioned in sub-paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d).

One line that says what changes, such as "Halve the dog tax".

Who it helps, what it costs, what it fixes. It is what persuades people to support it.

How this law is officially changed

Solon does not know this law's official route yet. The proposal is recorded all the same, and the route appears here once its source is added.

A proposal here is not law. Support on Solon is evidence that people want the change; the official route says what it takes to make it law.

Sign in to file your proposal. What you have written stays on this page.

Sign in to file it

Think it through

Ask what your change would do, who would gain and who would bear a cost, and where something like it is already law. The assistant reads your draft as it stands, cites the law and the studies it finds, and takes no side. What you file stays yours.

Questions to start with
Think it through
Legal information from the published text, not advice for your case. Check the sources. Find a law · What the register holds