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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-service-complaints-regulations-2015/regulation-3",
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  "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": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Specified officer",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a specified officer is an officer appointed by the Defence Council, or by a person authorised by the Defence Council, for the purposes of deciding whether any service complaint is admissible.\n(2) If in relation to a service complaint the officer who would be the specified officer in accordance with paragraph (1) is also the subject of the service complaint, or is alleged in the statement of complaint to be implicated in any way in the matter or matters complained of, the specified officer is an officer appointed by the Defence Council or by a person authorised by the Defence Council who is not so subject or alleged to be implicated.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 substituted (15.6.2022) by The Armed Forces (Service Complaints) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/494), regs. 1(1), 2(3)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1955/regulation/3",
    "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."
}