{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-call-out-and-recall-financial-assistance-regulations-1997/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-call-out-and-recall-financial-assistance-regulations-1997/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/309",
  "legislation_title": "The Reserve Forces (Call-out and Recall) (Financial Assistance) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-call-out-and-recall-financial-assistance-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Employer’s standard awards",
  "text": "(1) An employer shall, subject to fulfilment to the adjudication officer’s satisfaction of the requirement to furnish information or documents under regulation 11(2) below, be entitled to an employer’s standard award.\n(2) For the purposes of this Part and Part IV, “an employer’s standard award” means—\n(a) a lump sum payment equivalent to any costs, other than recurring costs, but not exceeding—\n(i) 6 per cent of the reservist’s average weekly earnings from that employer on the relevant date multiplied by 52; or\n(ii) £2,400,\nwhichever is less; and\n(b) sums equivalent to any recurring costs, not exceeding—\n(i) 4 per cent of the reservist’s average weekly earnings from that employer; or\n(ii) £31,\nwhichever is less, multiplied by the number of weeks in the period of relevant service; and\n(c) an administration expenses allowance of £55 for each employee of his who is accepted into service.\n(3) In this regulation and in regulation 6 below, “costs” means expenditure reasonably incurred by the employer in replacing the services of a reservist during the period of that reservist’s relevant service, less any expenditure which would have been incurred by the employer but for the reservist’s absence performing relevant service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/309/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:25:49.428193+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."
}