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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-complaints-and-regulation-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-14",
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  "legislation": "nia/2016/14",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Complaints and Regulation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-complaints-and-regulation-act-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Excluded complaints",
  "text": "(1) A complaint is excluded from the jurisdiction of the Bar Complaints Committee if the complainant has not first used the respondent's complaints procedures in relation to the complaint.\n(2) The respondent's complaints procedures are the procedures which the respondent participates in, or is subject to, in accordance with section 11.\n(3) Rules made by the Committee under section 17(1) must provide that subsection (1) of this section does not apply in such circumstances as may be specified in the rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 14 in operation at 1.9.2025 by S.R. 2025/143, art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/14/section/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:57.957994+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."
}