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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/915",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Complaints to the IBA",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of the IBA to consider any complaint made to it that a broadcast advertisement is misleading, unless the complaint appears to the IBA to be frivolous or vexatious.\n(2) The IBA shall give reasons for its decisions.\n(3) In exercising the powers conferred on it by these Regulations the IBA shall have regard to all the interests involved and in particular the public interest.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/914",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/3183",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/3183",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/915/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:06:17.999960+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."
}