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Appendix 3

Schedule 3 to the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2011 (SI 2011/517) (as amended)

SCHEDULE 3 Article 15(2)

THE TARIFF AND SUPPLEMENTARY AWARDS

PART 1

DESCRIPTORS, TARIFF LEVELS AND AMOUNTS – “THE TARIFF”

[Table 1 – Burns(*)

Item Column (a) Column (b)

Level Description of injury and its effects (“descriptor”)

1 4 Burns, with partial, deep or full thickness burns affecting 70% or more of whole body surface area.

2 5 Burns, with partial, deep or full thickness burns affecting 50 to
69.9% of whole body surface area.
3 5 Burns, with partial, deep or full thickness burns to the face or face and neck including one or more of the following: loss of or very severe damage to chin, ear, lip or nose, resulting in or expected to result in residual scarring and poor cosmetic result despite treatment and camouflage.
4 6 Burns, with partial, deep or full thickness burns affecting 15 to
49.9% of whole body surface area.
5 7 Burns, with partial, deep or full thickness burns to the face or face and neck resulting in, or expected to result in, residual scarring and poor cosmetic result despite treatment and camouflage.
6 8 Burns, with partial, deep or full thickness burns affecting 9 to
14.9% of whole body surface area.

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Item Column (a) Column (b)
Level Description of injury and its effects (“descriptor”)

7 9 Burns, with partial, deep or full thickness burns to face or face and neck resulting in, or expected to result in, residual scarring and satisfactory cosmetic result with camouflage.

8 11 Burns, with partial, deep or full thickness burns affecting 4.5 to 8.9% of whole body surface area.

9 12 Burns, with partial, deep or full thickness burns affecting less than 4.5[%] of whole body surface area.

10 12 Burns, with superficial burns affecting more than 15% of whole body surface area.

11 13 Burns, with superficial burns to the face or face and neck. 12 14 Burns, with superficial burns affecting 4.5 to 15% of whole body surface area.
13 15 Burns, with superficial burns affecting 1 to 4.4% of whole body surface area.

(*) Awards for all burns include compensation for any residual scarring or pigmentation and take into account any skin grafting.
(*) Awards for partial, deep or full thickness burns include compensation for actual or expected metabolic or cardiovascular consequences.]

AMENDMENT

Table 1 substituted by the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation
Scheme) (Amendment) Order 2014 (SI 2014/412), arts 1(1), 3, Sch.

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Table 2 – Injury, Wounds and Scarring(*)

Item Column (a) Column (b)
Level Description of injury and its effects (“descriptor”)

[A1 2 Bilateral complex injury to both upper limbs including hand on only one side and only from above elbow on the other, causing permanent total or virtually total functional limitation or restriction.]

1 5 Complex injury covering all or most of the area from thigh to ankle or shoulder to wrist, with complications, causing permanent significant functional limitation or restriction.

2 5 Loss of both kidneys or chronic renal failure.
3 6 Complex injury covering all or most of the area from thigh to knee, knee to ankle, shoulder to elbow or elbow to wrist, with complications, causing permanent significant functional limitation or restriction.
4 6 Injury covering all or most of the area from thigh to ankle or shoulder to wrist, with complications, causing permanent significant functional limitation or restriction.
5 6 Complex injury to chest, with complications, causing permanent significant functional limitation or restriction.
6 7 Complex injury covering all or most of the area from thigh to ankle or shoulder to wrist, causing permanent significant functional limitation or restriction.
7 7 Injury covering all or most of the area from thigh to knee,
knee to ankle, shoulder to elbow or elbow to wrist, with complications, causing permanent significant functional limitation or restriction.
8 7 Injury to chest, with complications, causing permanent significant functional limitation or restriction.
9 7 Complex injury to chest causing permanent significant functional limitation or restriction.
10 7 Complex injury to abdomen, including pelvis or perineum, or both, with complications, causing permanent significant functional limitation or restriction.
11 [6] Severe facial lacerations including one or more of the following: loss of or very severe damage to chin, ear, lip or nose, which have required, or are expected to require, operative treatment, but with poor cosmetic result despite camouflage.

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Item Column (a) Column (b)
Level Description of injury and its effects (“descriptor”)

12 7 [High energy transfer gunshot wound, deeply penetrating missile fragmentation or other penetrating injury (or all or any combination of these)] with clinically significant damage to bone, soft tissue structures and vascular or neurological structures of the head and neck, torso or limb, with complications, which have required, or are expected to require, operative treatment with residual permanent significant functional limitation or restriction.

13 8 Injury covering all or most of the area from thigh to ankle or shoulder to wrist, causing permanent significant functional limitation or restriction.

14 8 Complex injury covering all or most of the area from thigh to knee, knee to ankle, shoulder to elbow or elbow to wrist, causing permanent significant functional limitation or restriction.

15 [7] Severe facial lacerations which have required, or are expected to require, operative treatment, but with poor cosmetic result despite camouflage.

16 8 Injury to abdomen, including pelvis or perineum, or both, with complications, causing permanent significant functional limitation or restriction.

17 8 Complex injury to abdomen, including pelvis or perineum, or both, causing permanent significant functional limitation or restriction.

18 8 Injury to chest, causing permanent significant functional limitation or restriction.

19 9 Injury to abdomen, including pelvis or perineum, or both, causing permanent significant functional limitation or restriction.

20 9 Injury covering all or most of the area from thigh to knee, knee to ankle, shoulder to elbow or elbow to wrist, causing permanent significant functional limitation or restriction.

21 9 Complex injury covering all or most of the hand, with complications, causing permanent significant functional limitation or restriction.

22 9 [High energy transfer gunshot wound, deeply penetrating missile fragmentation or other penetrating injury (or all or any combination of these)] with clinically significant damage to soft tissue structures and vascular or neurological structures of the head and neck, torso or limb, which have required, or are expected to require, operative treatment with residual permanent significant functional limitation or restriction.

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Item Column (a) Column (b)
Level Description of injury and its effects (“descriptor”)

[22A 9 Non-freezing cold injury in the feet, hands or both, with small fibre neuropathy diagnosed clinically and by appropriate tests with continuing neuropathic pain and severely compromised mobility or dexterity beyond 26 weeks.]

23 10 Severe facial lacerations which have required, or are expected to require, operative treatment with a good cosmetic result with camouflage.

24 10 Complex injury covering all or most of the area from thigh to ankle or shoulder to wrist, with complications, which has caused, or is expected to cause, significant functional limitation or restriction at 26 weeks, with substantial recovery beyond that date.
25 10 Complex injury to chest, with complications, which has caused, or is expected to cause, significant functional limitation or restriction at 26 weeks, with substantial recovery beyond that date.

26 10 Complex injury covering all or most of the foot, with complications, causing permanent significant functional limitation or restriction.

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28 11 Complex injury covering all or most of the area from thigh to ankle or shoulder to wrist, which has caused, or is expected to cause, significant functional limitation or restriction at 26 weeks, with substantial recovery beyond that date.
29 11 Traumatic damage to spleen which has required splenectomy and where there is, or where there is a high risk of, overwhelming post-splenectomy infection.
30 [10] Severe facial scarring which produces a poor cosmetic result despite camouflage.
31 11 [High energy transfer gunshot wound, deeply penetrating missile fragmentation or other penetrating injury (or all or any combination of these)] with clinically significant damage to soft tissue structures of the head and neck, torso or limb, which have required, or are expected to require, operative treatment with residual permanent significant functional limitation or restriction.
32 11 Complex injury covering all or most of the area from thigh to knee, knee to ankle, shoulder to elbow or elbow to wrist, with complications, which has caused, or is expected to cause, significant functional limitation or restriction at
26 weeks, with substantial recovery beyond that date.

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Item Column (a) Column (b)
Level Description of injury and its effects (“descriptor”)

33 11 Injury covering all or most of the area from thigh to ankle or shoulder to wrist, with complications, which has caused, or is expected to cause, significant functional limitation or restriction at 26 weeks, with substantial recovery beyond...