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European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities) Order 2009

I am sorry to interrupt, but I think that the noble Lord is under the misapprehension that the reservation for the Armed Forces has only a limited application. I think that he said it applies only to retention within the service of those who have been injured in combat, or words to that effect. The text of the reservation is set out in paragraph 48 of the JCHR report. As does the Equality Bill in its present draft, it exempts the whole of the employment and occupation provisions— ""equal treatment in employment and occupation, in so far as it relates to discrimination on the grounds of disability, shall not apply to the armed forces"," at all. It is a completely blanket reservation and not of the narrow kind.