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

Injury and death – other exclusions

12.  Benefit is not payable to or in respect of a person by reason of an injury sustained by a member, the worsening of an injury, or death which is caused (wholly or partly) by—

(a) the use or effect of tobacco;

(b) the consumption of alcohol;

(c) the non-therapeutic use of drugs;

(d) consensual sexual activity;

(e) except where article 9 applies, events, experiences, exposures and activities occurring before the member or former member entered service;

(f) an illness which is—

(i) caused by a single gene defect or is predominantly hereditary in origin;

(ii) a personality disorder;

(iii) an endogenous infection; or

(iv) an exogenous infection except where the infection is acquired in a non-temperate region and the person infected has been exposed to the infection in the course of service or where, in a temperate region, there has been an outbreak of the infection in service accommodation or a workplace; or

(g) a self-inflicted injury whether or not causing death except where the self-inflicting of injury is a result of a mental illness caused by service.