The Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) (Amendment) Order 2018

Amendment of article 12

3.  In article 12 (injury and death – other exclusions)—

(a) in paragraph (1), in sub-paragraph (f), for paragraph (iv) substitute—

“(iv) an exogenous infection; or”;

(b) after paragraph (1), insert—

“(1A) Paragraph (1)(f)(iv) does not apply where—

(a) an exogenous infection is acquired in a non-temperate region and the person infected has been exposed to it in the course of service; or

(b) in a temperate region, there has been an outbreak of an exogenous infection in service accommodation or in a workplace.”;

(c) after paragraph (2) insert—

“(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1A)(b), an outbreak of an exogenous infection means any of the following—

(a) the occurrence of cases of infection in excess of what would normally be expected in a particular community, geographical area or season;

(b) a single incident of infection in the form of a communicable disease—

(i) long absent from, or

(ii) caused by a bacterium, virus or other agent not previously recognised in,

a particular community or geographical area;

(c) the emergence of a previously unknown disease in a particular community, geographical area or season.”.