{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/profit-related-pay-shortfall-recovery-regulations-1988/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/profit-related-pay-shortfall-recovery-regulations-1988/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/640",
  "legislation_title": "The Profit-Related Pay (Shortfall Recovery) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/profit-related-pay-shortfall-recovery-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Evidence",
  "text": "(1) Where the scheme employer has shown in a return to the Board that there is a shortfall, and an amount equal to such shortfall has not been paid or not fully paid within the period provided by regulation 4, an officer of the Board may certify the amount due to the Collector, and such certificate shall be sufficient evidence that the scheme employer is liable to pay to the Collector the amount shown in the certificate; and any document purporting to be such a certificate as aforesaid shall be deemed to be such a certificate until the contrary is proved.\n(2) A certificate of a Collector that any amount so due has not been paid to him or, to the best of his knowledge and belief, to any other Collector or to any person acting on his behalf or on behalf of another Collector, shall be sufficient evidence that the amount mentioned in the certificate is unpaid; and any document purporting to be such a certificate as aforesaid shall be deemed to be such a certificate until the contrary is proved.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/640/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:08:27.793968+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."
}