{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-call-out-and-recall-financial-assistance-regulations-1997/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-call-out-and-recall-financial-assistance-regulations-1997/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Retraining awards",
  "text": "(1) An employer shall, subject to—\n(a) fulfilment to the adjudication officer’s satisfaction of the requirement to furnish information or documents under regulation 11(3) below; and\n(b) notification to the adjudication officer no later than 4 weeks after the date on which the reservist resumes employment with him of the employer’s intention to claim a retraining award; and\n(c) the claim being made within the time limit specified in regulation 8(3) below,\nbe entitled to a retraining award.\n(2) The making of a claim within the time limit specified in paragraph (1)(b) above shall be deemed to be notification under that sub-paragraph.\n(3) For the purposes of these Regulations a “retraining award” means a lump sum payment not exceeding £2,000 of expenditure incurred or to be incurred by an employer in retraining a reservist to regain nationally recognised standards of competence or qualifications required to carry out duties with that employer and which the reservist had immediately before starting a period of 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/7",
    "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."
}