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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-call-out-and-recall-financial-assistance-amendment-regulations-2015/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/460",
  "legislation_title": "The Reserve Forces (Call-out and Recall) (Financial Assistance) (Amendment) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-call-out-and-recall-financial-assistance-amendment-regulations-2015",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make amendments to the Reserve Forces (Call-out and Recall) (Financial Assistance) Regulations 2005. They alter the financial assistance available to members of the reserve forces and employers who suffer financial loss as a result of the call out of members of the reserve forces for permanent service in the armed forces.\nRegulation 3(2) reduces the maximum daily rate of a reservist’s award under regulation 3 of the 2005 Regulations.\nRegulation 3(3) inserts new regulation 5A into the 2005 Regulations. Under regulation 5A, a reservist who is self-employed may claim for certain business expenses that he or she incurs in respect of the period during which he or she is called out for permanent service in the armed forces.\nRegulation 4(1) amends regulation 6(4) of the 2005 Regulations to allow employers to claim recurring agency fees incurred in replacing a reservist.\nRegulation 4(2) inserts new regulations 7A, 7B and 7C into the 2005 Regulations. Under regulation 7A, an employer may claim for the cost of training a person who replaces the reservist at work during his or her absence on permanent service in the armed forces. Regulation 7B allows an employer to claim an award in respect of the cost of employing a replacement during handovers between the reservist and the replacement before and after the reservist’s absence on permanent service. Regulation 7C allows an employer to claim an award in respect of the cost of providing replacements with specialist clothing required for the performance of their employment.\nRegulation 5 amends regulation 11 of the 2005 Regulations to specify the information and documentation that must be submitted with claims made under regulations 5A, 7A, 7B or 7C of those regulations.\nRegulation 6 provides that the changes made by these Regulations apply only to periods of permanent service that begin on or after 27th March 2015.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/460/note",
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  "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."
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