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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-armed-forces-service-complaints-commissioner-regulations-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2007/9780110788364",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Service Complaints Commissioner) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-armed-forces-service-complaints-commissioner-regulations-2007",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nSection 366 of the Armed Forces Act 2006 provides for the appointment of a Service Complaints Commissioner. Section 338 of that Act provides for the referral to the relevant officer by the Service Complaints Commissioner of allegations made to him that a person subject to service law has been wronged in a prescribed way. Regulation 2 sets out the prescribed ways.\nRegulation 3 prescribes matters of which the relevant officer must notify the Service Complaints Commissioner. It also provides that he must do so within 21 days of the matter occurring.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2007/9780110788364/note",
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  },
  "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."
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