{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-call-out-and-recall-financial-assistance-amendment-regulations-2015/regulation-4",
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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",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendments to Part 3 of the 2005 Regulations",
  "text": "(1) For paragraph (4) of regulation 6 (employer’s awards) of the 2005 Regulations substitute—\n“(4) In addition an employer may claim the amount of certain costs that he or she incurs in replacing the reservist. Those costs are—\n(a) agency fees;\n(b) non-recurring advertising costs.”.\n(2) After regulation 7 (training award) of the 2005 Regulations, insert—\n“Replacement award\n7A. (1) Subject to fulfilment to an adjudication officer’s satisfaction of the requirement to furnish information or documentation under paragraph (5A) of regulation 11, an employer is entitled to reclaim the cost (subject to the cap) of training for any person who replaces the reservist during the relevant period, if an adjudication officer is satisfied that the replacement needs to undertake such training for the performance of his or her employment as the reservist’s replacement.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation the cap is £2000.\nHandover award\n7B. (1) Subject to fulfilment to an adjudication officer’s satisfaction of the requirement to furnish information or documentation under paragraph (5B) of regulation 11, an employer is entitled to claim an award under this regulation in respect of a handover.\n(2) The amount payable in respect of a handover is (subject to paragraph (3) and the cap) the daily rate of pay to any replacement of the reservist during the handover multiplied by the number of days on which the handover was conducted.\n(3) An employer may claim under this regulation in respect of no more than 5 days on which a handover was conducted before the relevant period and no more than 5 days on which a handover was conducted after the relevant period.\n(4) For the purposes of this regulation the cap is the sum of the daily rate of pay to the reservist during the handover and £110 per day.\nClothing award\n7C. (1) Subject to fulfilment to an adjudication officer’s satisfaction of the requirement to furnish information or documentation under paragraph (5C) of regulation 11, an employer is entitled to reclaim the cost (subject to the cap) of providing specialist clothing to any person who replaces the reservist during the relevant period, if an adjudication officer is satisfied that the replacement requires the clothing for the performance of his or her employment as the reservist’s replacement.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation the cap is the lesser of £300 or 75% of the costs incurred by the employer in providing the clothing.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 27.3.2015, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/460/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:45:19.064784+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."
}