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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equal-pay-complaints-to-industrial-tribunals-armed-forces-regulations-1997/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2162",
  "legislation_title": "The Equal Pay (Complaints to Industrial Tribunals) (Armed Forces) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equal-pay-complaints-to-industrial-tribunals-armed-forces-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A person may present a complaint to an industrial tribunal under section 7A of the Equal Pay Act 1970, notwithstanding that subsection (5) of that section would otherwise preclude the presentation of such a complaint, in any case to which paragraph (2) or (4) below applies.\n(2) This paragraph applies where—\n(a) the person has made a complaint in respect of the same matter to an officer under the service redress procedures; and\n(b) that complaint has not been withdrawn.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b) above, a person shall be treated as having withdrawn his complaint if, having made a complaint to an officer under the service redress procedures, he fails to submit that complaint to the Defence Council under those procedures.\n(4) This paragraph applies where the complaint concerns a claim in respect of the contravention of a term of service relating to membership of, or rights under, any relevant scheme.\n(5) In this regulation—\n“occupational pension scheme” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the Pensions Schemes Act 1993; and\n“relevant scheme” means—\n(a) any occupational pension scheme made under section 3 of the Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions Act 1865;\n(b) the Army Pensions Warrant 1977; or\n(c) any occupational pension scheme made under section 2 of the Air Force (Constitution) Act 1917.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1865 c. 73."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1917 c. 51."
    }
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      "affecting_title": "The Armed Forces Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2009"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Armed Forces Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2009"
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      "affecting": "uksi/2009/2054",
      "affecting_title": "The Armed Forces Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2009"
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    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Armed Forces Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2009"
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2162/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:57:25.877881+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."
}