Article 3 Amendment of Regulations

Regulation 13 of the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000^f1 shall be amended as follows.

For paragraph (4) substitute—

“(4)

For the purpose of paragraph (3)(b), a person shall be treated as having withdrawn his complaint if, having made a complaint to an officer under the service redress procedures—

(a)

where the service redress procedures are those referred to in section 334 of the Armed Forces Act 2006, neither that officer nor a superior officer has decided to refer the complaint to the Defence Council, and the person who made the complaint fails to apply for such a reference to be made;

(b)

in any other case, the person who made the complaint fails to submit the complaint to the Defence Council under the service redress procedures.”

In paragraph (6) for the words “and section 130 of the Naval Discipline Act 1957” substitute “, section 130 of the Naval Discipline Act 1957 or section 334 of the Armed Forces Act 2006”.