{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-service-complaints-regulations-2015/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-service-complaints-regulations-2015/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1955",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Service Complaints) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-service-complaints-regulations-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Defence\nMade 3rd December 2015\nLaid before Parliament 7th December 2015\nComing into force 1st January 2016\nThe Defence Council, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 340B(1), (2) and (4), 340C(1) and (2), 340D(1), (2) and (6), 340F(2), 340G(1) and (3), and 340M(5) of the Armed Forces Act 2006, makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c. 52. Sections 340B, 340C, 340D, 340F, 340G and 340M were inserted by section 2(1) of the Armed Forces (Service Complaints and Financial Assistance) Act 2015 c. 19. Section 340B(3) provides for the minimum period which must be specified in service complaints regulations made under section 340B(2)(c). Section 340B(5) prescribes, for the purposes of section 340B(4), the grounds on which a service complaint is not admissible. Section 340D(3) provides for the minimum period which must be specified in regulations made for the purposes of section 340D(2)(b). Section 340G(2) identifies one of the consequences which may be provided for in regulations made for the purposes of section 340G(1)(c)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1955/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:29:55.360002+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."
}