The Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2011

Injury benefit - general provisions U.K.

16.—(1) Subject to articles 25 and 26—

(a) benefit for injury is payable only in respect of an injury for which there is a descriptor;

(b) where an injury may be described by more than one descriptor, the descriptor is that which best describes the injury and its effects for which benefit has been claimed; and

(c) more than one injury may be described by one descriptor.

(2) In Tables 1 to 9 of the tariff the descriptors give rise to entitlement at the corresponding tariff level.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the amount specified in column (b) of Table 10 of the tariff is the amount of the lump sum in relation to the corresponding tariff level referred to in column (a).

(4) In the case of an injury to which article 25 (injury to a pair of like body parts) applies, the lump sum is the amount calculated in accordance with article 25(3)(a).

(5) A supplementary award is payable in addition to a lump sum where an injury or the effect of an injury is—

(a) specified in Part 2 of Schedule 3; and

(b) the conditions specified in that Part are satisfied.

(6) The relevant amount is the amount of—

(a) the lump sum determined in accordance with paragraph (3); and

(b) a supplementary award, if payable, added to the lump sum for the descriptor which gives rise to that award.

(7) Guaranteed income payment is payable only in respect of injuries giving rise to an entitlement within tariff levels 1 to 11 and is to be determined in accordance with article 24.

(8) Subject to article 79(2), a person is only entitled to one guaranteed income payment regardless of the number of injuries which are sustained.

(9) If a person has sustained more than one injury in separate incidents the guaranteed income payment which is payable is the highest such payment which has been awarded.

(10) Guaranteed income payment is not payable until the day after the day on which the service of the member to whom it was awarded ends, and no such payment is payable in respect of any period before that day.