Statutory Instruments
2005 No. 116 (C.4)
PENSIONS
Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Act 2004 (Commencement No 1) Order 2005
Made 20th January 2005

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 8 of the Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Act 2004 hereby makes the following Order:
2004 c. 32

Citation and Interpretation
1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Act 2004 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2005.
(2) In this Order, “the Act” means the Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Act 2004.

Commencement
2. The provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of the Schedule shall come into force on 21st January 2005, but where a particular purpose is specified in relation to any such provision in column 2 of that Schedule, the provision concerned shall come into force on that date only for that purpose.
Signed on behalf of the Secretary of State for Defence
Ivor Caplin
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Ministry of Defence
20th January 2005
SCHEDULE
Column 1	Column 2
Section 4	
Section 5	Commenced for the purposes of the provisions of Schedule 1 to the Act commenced by this Order.
Section 7(3)	
Section 7(4)	Commenced for the purposes of the provisions of Schedule 3 to the Act commenced by this Order.
In Schedule 1, paragraph 1	Commenced for the purposes of the other provisions of Schedule 1 to the Act commenced by this Order.
In Schedule 1, paragraph 2	
In Schedule 1, paragraph 6	Commenced for the purposes of regulations made under section 5A of the Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943 1943 c. 39
In Schedule 3, the provisions relating to the repeal of the words “made by statutory instrument” in subsection (2), and the repeal of subsection (3), of section 5A of the Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943	
Article 2

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order brings into force on 21st January 2005 the provisions of the Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Act 2004 listed in column 1 of the Schedule to the Order. Where a particular purpose is specified in column 2 of the Schedule, the corresponding provision comes into force on 21st January for that purpose only.