{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006/section-340I",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006/section-340I.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/52",
  "legislation_title": "Armed Forces Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006",
  "path": "section/340I",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "340I",
  "heading": "Procedure on Commissioner investigations of service complaints",
  "text": "(1) It is for the Armed Forces Commissioner to determine—\n(a) whether to begin, continue or discontinue an investigation under section 340H;\n(b) whether to investigate a service complaint, or an allegation, as a whole or only in particular respects.\n(2) The Secretary of State may make regulations about the procedure to be followed in an investigation under section 340H.\n(3) Subject to subsection (2), the procedure for carrying out an investigation under section 340H is to be such as the Commissioner considers appropriate in the circumstances.\n(4) In particular, the Commissioner may make such inquiries as the Commissioner considers appropriate.\n(5) The Secretary of State may by regulations—\n(a) impose time limits for the taking by the Commissioner or the complainant of any step specified in the regulations;\n(b) specify circumstances in which a time limit does not apply.\n(6) Where—\n(a) the Commissioner carries out an investigation under section 340H(1)(b) in connection with the handling of a service complaint, and\n(b) before the complaint was made, the matter to which it relates was considered in accordance with a process for dealing with matters of that kind,\nthe Commissioner may for the purposes of the investigation consider any alleged maladministration in connection with that process.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 14A inserted (1.1.2016) by Armed Forces (Service Complaints and Financial Assistance) Act 2015 (c. 19), ss. 2(1), 7(1); S.I. 2015/1957, reg. 2 (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2015/1969)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 340I(1) substituted (1.4.2026) by Armed Forces Commissioner Act 2025 (c. 23), s. 7(2), Sch. 2 para. 10(f); S.I. 2026/14, regs. 2, 4(e) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 340I(1) inserted (1.4.2026) by Armed Forces Commissioner Act 2025 (c. 23), s. 7(2), Sch. 2 para. 15(b); S.I. 2026/14, regs. 2, 4(e) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 340I(2) inserted (1.4.2026) by Armed Forces Commissioner Act 2025 (c. 23), s. 7(2), Sch. 2 para. 15(b); S.I. 2026/14, regs. 2, 4(e) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 340I(3) inserted (1.4.2026) by Armed Forces Commissioner Act 2025 (c. 23), s. 7(2), Sch. 2 para. 15(b); S.I. 2026/14, regs. 2, 4(e) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in s. 340I(3) substituted (1.4.2026) by Armed Forces Commissioner Act 2025 (c. 23), s. 7(2), Sch. 2 para. 11(c)(ii); S.I. 2026/14, regs. 2, 4(e) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in s. 340I(4) substituted (1.4.2026) by Armed Forces Commissioner Act 2025 (c. 23), s. 7(2), Sch. 2 para. 11(c)(iii); S.I. 2026/14, regs. 2, 4(e) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in s. 340I(5)(a) substituted (1.4.2026) by Armed Forces Commissioner Act 2025 (c. 23), s. 7(2), Sch. 2 para. 11(c)(iv); S.I. 2026/14, regs. 2, 4(e) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in s. 340I(6) substituted (1.4.2026) by Armed Forces Commissioner Act 2025 (c. 23), s. 7(2), Sch. 2 para. 11(c)(v); S.I. 2026/14, regs. 2, 4(e) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Word in s. 340I heading substituted (1.4.2026) by Armed Forces Commissioner Act 2025 (c. 23), s. 7(2), Sch. 2 para. 11(c)(i); S.I. 2026/14, regs. 2, 4(e) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 340I heading inserted (1.4.2026) by Armed Forces Commissioner Act 2025 (c. 23), s. 7(2), Sch. 2 para. 15(a); S.I. 2026/14, regs. 2, 4(e) (with reg. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/52/section/340I",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:24.063324+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}