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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 31 December 2020 - onwards
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Regulation 101 Dispute resolution

(1) This regulation applies in relation to complaints from payment service users who are not eligible within the meaning of section 226(6) of the 2000 Act (the ombudsman scheme – compulsory jurisdiction).

(2) A payment service provider must put in place and apply adequate and effective complaint resolution procedures for the settlement of complaints from payment service users about the rights and obligations arising under Parts 6 and 7.

(3) [deleted]

(4) When a payment service provider receives a complaint from a payment service user, the payment service provider must make every possible effort to address all points raised in a reply to the complaint on paper or, if agreed between payment service provider and payment service user, in another durable medium.

(5) Subject to paragraph (6), the reply must be provided to the complainant within an adequate timeframe and at the latest 15 business days after the day on which the payment service provider received the complaint.