{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-and-occupational-pension-schemes-pensions-ombudsman-procedure-rules-1995/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-and-occupational-pension-schemes-pensions-ombudsman-procedure-rules-1995/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1053",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Pensions Ombudsman) (Procedure) Rules 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-and-occupational-pension-schemes-pensions-ombudsman-procedure-rules-1995",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Withdrawal of complaint or dispute",
  "text": "The complainant may withdraw his complaint or dispute—\n(a) at any time before the end of fourteen days from the date he receives a copy of the reply referred to in paragraph (3) of rule 6 by sending to the office of the Pensions Ombudsman a notice stating he so withdraws signed by him or his representative;\nor\n(b) thereafter with the leave of the Pensions Ombudsman which leave shall not be unreasonably refused.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 4 substituted (6.4.1997) by The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Pensions Ombudsman) (Procedure) Amendment Rules 1996 (S.I. 1996/2638), rules 1(1), 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1053/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:10:55.305839+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."
}