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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-service-complaints-and-financial-assistance-act-2015-transitional-and-savings-provisions-regulations-2015/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1969",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Service Complaints and Financial Assistance) Act 2015 (Transitional and Savings Provisions) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-service-complaints-and-financial-assistance-act-2015-transitional-and-savings-provisions-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Part 3 complaint refused at an initial stage",
  "text": "(1) Paragraphs (2) and (3) apply to a Part 3 complaint that, but for regulation 3(2) of these Regulations (pre-commencement complaints refused at an initial stage after 1st October 2015 are not finalised complaints), would be a finalised complaint because it has been refused at an initial stage before the commencement date.\n(2) The refusal is to be treated as if it were a decision made by the specified officer under new regulation 5(1) that the complaint is not admissible.\n(3) New regulation 7(2) (time limit for asking the Ombudsman to review a decision that a complaint is not admissible) applies to the complaint as if the reference to four weeks were to three months.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 1.1.2016, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1969/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:29:44.886170+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."
}