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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-probation-boards-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2001/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-probation-boards-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2001/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/786",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Probation Boards (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-probation-boards-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Complaints",
  "text": "(1) A local probation board shall make and publicise arrangements for dealing with complaints.\n(2) The following persons are prescribed under paragraph 18 of Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act for the purpose of complaints being made by or on behalf of such persons in relation to things done under arrangements made by the board under section 5 of that Act:\n(a) persons in respect of whom the local probation board has had responsibility for writing a pre-sentence report;\n(b) persons convicted of offences who are, or have been, under the supervision of a local probation board or who are or have been provided with accommodation in premises approved by the Secretary of State in accordance with section 9 of the 2000 Act;\n(c) victims of persons convicted of offences;\n(d) persons who have suffered physical injury or distress or theft of or damage to their property as a result of the conduct of a person subject to a community order or released from prison on licence whilst undertaking activities under the supervision of an officer of a local probation board; and\n(e) the immediate family of a person falling within sub-paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) above where that person has died; and for this purpose, “immediate family” means the parents, spouse, cohabitee, siblings or children of a person falling within (a), (b), (c) or (d) above.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2114",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/786/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:58:39.236393+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."
}