Prospective

Award of redress E

11 Abuse of similar description E

(1) This section applies where—

(a) the rules make provision under section 4(4)(b) giving descriptions of the abuse within a category in section 4(2), but

(b) the redress body, on its determination of an application under section 3, considers that the abuse to which the application relates—

(i) is not of a description given in the rules, but

(ii) is of a description sufficiently similar to a description given in the rules that it could reasonably be treated as being of that description.

(2) The redress body is entitled to decide that the abuse is to be treated for the purposes of the application as being of the description given in the rules.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 11 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 33(3)