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Armed Forces Act 2011

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 88 Cited in Amendments 133 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation2011 c. 18
Year2011
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  • After section 343 of AFA 2006 insert—
      (Part 16A) Armed forces covenant report
      (343A) Armed forces covenant report
    • “(1) The Secretary of State must in each calendar year—
    • (a) prepare an armed forces covenant report; and
    • (b) lay a copy of the report before Parliament.
    • prepare an armed forces covenant report; andlay a copy of the report before Parliament.in the fields of healthcare, education and housing;in the operation of inquests; andin such other fields as the Secretary of State may determine.the unique obligations of, and sacrifices made by, the armed forces;the principle that it is desirable to remove disadvantages arising for service people from membership, or former membership, of the armed forces; andthe principle that special provision for service people may be justified by the effects on such people of membership, or former membership, of the armed forces.For the purposes of preparing an armed forces covenant report, the Secretary of State must obtain the views of any relevant government department, and seek the views of any relevant devolved administration, in relation to the effects to be covered by the report.set out in full or summarise the views of a relevant government department or relevant devolved administration obtained pursuant to subsection (4) ; andwhere the views of a relevant devolved administration have been sought but not obtained, state that fact.The Secretary of State may not include in an armed forces covenant report a summary under subsection (5) (a) unless the relevant government department or relevant devolved administration has approved the summary.An armed forces covenant report must state whether, in the Secretary of State's opinion, any effects covered by the report are such that service people or particular descriptions of service people are at a disadvantage as regards the field or fields in question, when compared with other persons or such descriptions of other persons as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.Where the Secretary of State's opinion is that service people or particular descriptions of service people are at a disadvantage as mentioned in subsection (7) , the report must set out the Secretary of State's response to that.the Secretary of State must consider whether the making of special provision for service people or particular descriptions of service people would be justified; andwhere the Secretary of State considers that such provision would be justified, the report must contain a reference to that fact.In relation to any particular description of service people covered by a report, the reference in subsection (2) (a) to the fields of healthcare, education and housing is to such of those fields as the Secretary of State considers are ones in which people of that description are affected by membership or former membership of the armed forces.members of the regular forces and the reserve forces;members of British overseas territory forces who are subject to service law;former members of any of Her Majesty's forces who are ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom; andrelevant family members.In section 343A “relevant government department”, in relation to an effect to be covered by an armed forces covenant report, means a department of the Government of the United Kingdom (apart from the Ministry of Defence) which the Secretary of State considers has

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