Miscellaneous amendments of Armed Forces Act 2006 U.K.

22 Civilians subject to service discipline U.K.

(1) Schedule 15 to AFA 2006 (civilians subject to service discipline) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 4(1), for paragraph (c) substitute—

“(c) either—

(i) he is in a designated area, and his normal place of work in that role is in that designated area; or

(ii) sub-paragraph (i) does not apply, but he is in a designated area and he came there wholly or partly for the purposes of his work in that role.”

(3) In paragraph 5(1), for paragraph (c) substitute—

“(c) either—

(i) he is in a country outside the British Islands, and his normal place of work under that employment is in that country; or

(ii) sub-paragraph (i) does not apply, but he is in a country outside the British Islands and he came there wholly or partly for the purposes of his work under that employment.”

(4) In paragraph 6(1), for paragraph (b) substitute—

“(b) either—

(i) he is in a designated area, and his normal place of work for that organisation is in that designated area; or

(ii) sub-paragraph (i) does not apply, but he is in a designated area and he came there wholly or partly for the purposes of work for that organisation.”

(5) In paragraph 10—

(a) in sub-paragraph (1)—

(i) in paragraph (a), for “a relevant person outside the British Islands” substitute “ a qualifying person in a relevant country ”;

(ii) in paragraph (b), for “outside the British Islands” substitute “ in that country ”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (2)—

(i) for “ “relevant person”” substitute “qualifying person” ;

(ii) in paragraph (b), for “being in the British Islands” substitute “ not being in a relevant country ”;

(c) after sub-paragraph (2) insert—

“(3) For the purposes of this paragraph, a country is “relevant” in relation to a person employed as mentioned in paragraph 5 if it is outside the British Islands and—

(a) is where that person's normal place of work under that employment is situated; or

(b) is a country to which that person came wholly or partly for the purposes of his work under that employment.”

(6) After paragraph 13 insert—

“14 For the purposes of paragraphs 5(1)(c), 10 and 11, a territory that is not within a country is to be treated as a country.”

Commencement Information

I1 S. 22 in force at 14.12.2012 by S.I. 2012/2921, art. 3(a)