19.—(1) The Sex Discrimination (Complaints to Industrial Tribunals) (Armed Forces) Regulations 1997(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2(1)(a) for “service redress procedures” is substituted “service complaint procedures”.
(3) For regulation 2(2) is substituted—
“(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), a person shall be treated as having withdrawn his complaint if, having made a complaint to an officer under the service complaint procedures, neither that officer nor a superior officer has decided to refer the complaint to the Defence Council, and the complainant fails to apply for such a reference to be made.”
(4) After regulation 2(2) is inserted—
“(3) In this regulation “the service complaint procedures” means the procedures prescribed by regulations under section 334 of the Armed Forces Act 2006.”