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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-council-housing-compensation-regulations-1980/regulation-32",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1980/646",
  "legislation_title": "The Greater London Council Housing (Compensation) Regulations 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-council-housing-compensation-regulations-1980",
  "path": "regulation/32",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Review of awards of long-term or retirement compensation",
  "text": "(1) Every decision, on a claim for long-term or retirement compensation made to a compensating authority, shall be reviewed by that authority in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.\n(2) A decision on a claim in respect of loss of employment shall be reviewed during the initial review period if—\n(a) the authority consider there has been a change in the circumstances of a claimant's case which is material for the purposes of these regulations,\n(b) the claimant considers there has been such a change in the circumstances of his case, and requests the authority to carry out a review, and\n(c) the decision is not reviewed in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) or (b) during any period of 6 months, on the expiry of that period of 6 months.\n(3) A decision on a claim in respect of diminution of emoluments shall be reviewed—\n(a) as described in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) of paragraph (2), for so long as the claimant holds the employment in which his emoluments were diminished, and\n(b) within 3 months after he ceases to hold that employment.\n(4) A decision shall also be reviewed—\n(a) in the case of a decision on a claim in respect of loss of employment, after the initial review period, if the emoluments of employment or work, undertaken by the claimant as a result of his loss of employment, have been taken into account in determining the amount of any compensation awarded, that employment or work has been lost, or the emoluments thereof reduced, otherwise than by reason of misconduct or incapacity to perform the duties which he might reasonably have been required to perform, and the authority are satisfied that the loss or reduction is causing him hardship;\n(b) in a case where a review has been carried out in accordance with sub-paragraph (a), at six monthly intervals for a period of two years immediately following the review date; and\n(c) in the case of a decision on a claim for long-term compensation in respect of loss of employment, after the initial review period, and in the case of a decision on a claim for long-term compensation in respect of diminution of emoluments, after the review date, if—\n(i) the claimant becomes engaged in any current employment, and the aggregate of the emoluments of that employment, any superannuation benefit by way of annual amounts payable to him in respect of the employment which he has lost or the employment in which his emoluments have been diminished and the long-term compensation payable to him exceeds the emoluments of the employment which he has lost or, as the case may be, in which the emoluments have been diminished, and\n(ii) after a review has been carried out in accordance with item (i) of this sub-paragraph, the emoluments of the claimant's current employment are increased.\n(5) Subject to paragraph (6), these regulations shall apply in relation to a review under this regulation as they apply in relation to the initial determination of the claim, and on such a review, in the light of any material change in the circumstances of the claimant's case, the authority may—\n(a) award compensation, or\n(b) increase, reduce or discontinue the compensation.\n(6) On any review under this regulation, the amount of long-term compensation which, apart from this paragraph and any reduction under regulation 30(3) and (4), would be payable to the claimant may be reduced by an amount not exceeding the amount by which the aggregate of the compensation and the annual rate of emoluments of his current employment exceeds the annual rate of emoluments of the employment which he has lost or, as the case may be, in which the emoluments have been diminished.\n(7) For the purposes of regulations 13(4)(a) and 22(1) and on any review under this regulation, no account shall be taken of any increase in the emoluments of any work or employment undertaken as a result of the loss of employment or diminution of emoluments, or of any superannuation benefit attributable to such an increase, if such increase is effective from any date after the date of the loss or diminution and is attributable to a rise in the cost of living.\n(8) Nothing in this regulation shall preclude the making of any adjustment of compensation required by regulation 29 or 30.\n(9) A compensating authority shall, not less than 14 days before carrying out a review under this regulation (other than a review to be carried out at the request of a claimant under paragraph (2)(b)), give to the claimant notice of that review.\n(10) In this regulation—\n(a) “claimant” means the person to whom the decision relates;\n(b) “current employment” means employment undertaken by a claimant after the loss or diminution to which the decision relates; and in paragraph (4)(c) means such an employment, the emoluments whereof are payable out of public funds;\n(c) “decision” means the decision of a compensating authority or, where the claim has been the subject of an appeal, the decision of the tribunal;\n(d) “initial review period”, in relation to a decision, means the period of 2 years immediately following the date upon which the decision is notified to the claimant under regulation 34 or, as the case may be, by the tribunal; and\n(e) “review date” means—\n(i) for the purposes of sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (4), the date upon which the authority commenced the review in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) of that paragraph, and\n(ii) for the purposes of sub-paragraph (c) of that paragraph, the date upon which the authority commenced the review in accordance with sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/646/regulation/32",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:01:16.416026+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."
}