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The Armed Forces Act 2011 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is the latest in a series of Acts to provide a legislative framework for the UK Armed Forces. Apart from giving the armed forces the legal authority to exist for another five years,〔Taylor, p. 1〕 its major elements are establishing a requirement for the Secretary of State for Defence to make an annual report to Parliament on the implementation of the Armed Forces Covenant, some revisions to the Armed Forces Act 2006, and provisions covering the three service police forces and the Ministry of Defence Police. ==Background== Different components of what became the Armed Forces Act had different origins. There had been an existing requirement for an Armed Forces Act 'to provide the legal basis for the Armed Forces'.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher = legislation.gov.uk )〕 Under the 1688 Bill of Rights, the 'raising and keeping of a Standing Army during peacetime is against the law, unless it is with the consent of Parliament.' Given that authority for maintaining armed forces under the Armed Forces Act 2006 and its subsequent secondary legislation would run out on 8 November 2011, a new piece of Primary legislation was needed.〔Taylor, p. 3〕 In the case of the 2011 Act in particular, an additional policy reason for legislation was the UK Government's previously stated commitment to put the military covenant into law: during a visit to the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal in June 2010, David Cameron, the Prime Minister, had said that:
This formalisation of the Covenant was described by the relevant Select Committee as being the most controversial provision within a Bill that was otherwise on a 'much smaller scale' than the AFA 2006. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Armed Forces Act 2011」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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