{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-service-complaints-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2015/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-service-complaints-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2015/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/2064",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Service Complaints Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-service-complaints-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Excluded complaints",
  "text": "(1) A person may not make a service complaint about a matter within the Schedule.\n(2) A person may not make a service complaint about—\n(a) a decision under regulations made for the purposes of section 340B(4)(a) (admissibility of the complaint);\n(b) a decision under regulations made for the purposes of section 340C(2) (decision on the service complaint);\n(c) a decision under regulations made for the purposes of section 340D(2)(c) (decision relating to whether an appeal has been brought before the end of the specified period);\n(d) a determination of an appeal brought under regulations made for the purposes of section 340D(1) (appeals);\n(e) alleged maladministration (including undue delay) in connection with the handling of his or her service complaint;\n(f) a decision by the Commissioner for the purposes of any provision of Part 14A of the Act;\n(g) the handling by the Commissioner of a service complaint;\n(h) a decision for the purposes of regulations made under section 334(2) whether a service complaint could be made about a matter;\n(i) a decision under regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (b) of section 334(5) whether a service complaint, or an application referred to in that paragraph, could be made after the end of a prescribed period.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Regulations substituted (1.4.2026) by The Armed Forces Commissioner (Family Definition, and Consequential and Transitional Provision etc.) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/372), regs. 1(2), 5(3) (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 1.1.2016, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/1066",
      "affecting_title": "The Armed Forces (Service Complaints Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/2064/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:28:46.094359+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."
}