Section 36: Crown servants and Parliamentary staff
72.This section makes particular provision for Crown servants, members of the armed forces and Parliamentary staff. Subsection (5) empowers the Secretary of State to modify the application of the Act, or of provisions amended or inserted by the Act, in relation to Crown servants, members of the armed forces, and Parliamentary staff. This power is needed to make the Act work properly in relation to these classes of person, given their particular circumstances: for instance the fact that they may not have contracts of employment.