The Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) (Amendment) Order 2014

Amendment of Schedule 3 (the tariff and supplementary awards) Part 1 Table 2

4.  In Table 2 (injury, wounds and scarring)—

(a) in item 11 substitute “6” for “7”;

(b) in item 15 substitute “7” for “8”;

(c) in item 30 substitute “10” for “11”;

(d) it items 12, 22, and 31 substitute—

• “High energy transfer gunshot wound, deeply penetrating missile fragmentation or other penetrating injury (or all or any combination of these)”

• for—

• “High velocity gun shot wound, deep shrapnel fragmentation or other penetrating injury (or all or any combination of these)”;

(e) in item 41 substitute—

• “High energy transfer gunshot wound, deeply penetrating missile fragmentation or other penetrating injury (or all or any combination of these)”

• for—

• “High velocity gun shot wound, deep shrapnel fragmentation or one or more puncture wounds (or all or any combination of these injuries)”;

(f) after item 55 insert—

• “55B 13 Blunt trauma resulting in soft tissue injury to head and neck, torso or limb, which has required, or is expected to require, operative treatment.”;

(g) in footnote a to the Table substitute “In items 55A and 65A, a descriptor” for “A descriptor”.