{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-compensation-regulations-1965/regulation-35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-compensation-regulations-1965/regulation-35.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1965/563",
  "legislation_title": "The Fire Services (Compensation) Regulations 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-compensation-regulations-1965",
  "path": "regulation/35",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": "Right of appeal from decision of the compensating authority",
  "text": "(1) Every claimant who is aggrieved by any decision of the compensating authority with respect to compensation under these Regulations or by any failure on the part of the compensating authority to notify him of any such decision within the appropriate time prescribed by these Regulations may within three months of the notification to him of the decision or the expiry of the prescribed time, as the case may be, refer the matter to the tribunal.\n(2) Reference of a matter to the tribunal as aforesaid by a claimant shall be made in writing.\n(3) On receipt of such a reference, the tribunal shall consider and determine the matter in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations and the compensating authority shall give effect to the decision of the tribunal with any modifications that may be required in consequence of any appeal from the decision on a point of law.\n(4) On any such reference the tribunal may, if it thinks fit, appoint a person having special knowledge or experience in relation to the subject matter of the reference to sit with the tribunal as an assessor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1965/563/regulation/35",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:58:44.674273+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."
}