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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-payments-to-employers-and-partners-regulations-2014/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2410",
  "legislation_title": "The Reserve Forces (Payments to Employers and Partners) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-payments-to-employers-and-partners-regulations-2014",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations give effect to a new scheme for making payments to employers of, and persons carrying on business in partnership with, members of the reserve forces who are called out for service in the armed forces.\nRegulation 3 provides for a payment to an employer of a reservist who is called out. It only applies to employers who are not public authorities. The employer must also be within certain limits as to size (turnover and number of employees and partners) which are set out in Schedule 1. Regulation 4 provides for a payment to the partners of a reservist who is called out. The partnerships which are eligible are subject to equivalent limits to those which apply to employers.\nAn employer’s payment is the total of the amounts payable to the employer for each part or whole calendar month which falls within the period during which the reservist is called out. For a reservist who is on a full-time contract to work 35 hours a week or more and is absent for a whole calendar month, the payment is £500. The amount payable is reduced proportionately in relation to part calendar months and where the reservist is contracted to work less than 35 hours a week.\nA partner’s payment is calculated on a similar basis but by reference to the number of hours that the reservist is likely to have worked for the partnership if they were not called out.\nRegulation 7 prescribes by reference to Schedule 2 the information that must be provided to an adjudication officer by an employer or partner when making a claim. It also provides for the adjudication officer to ask for additional information or documentation.\nRegulation 8 concerns the determination and payment of claims. It requires an adjudication officer to consider claims promptly and to provide a claimant with written notification of the determination of a claim, together with reasons for the decision, an explanation of how any payment was calculated and a notice that an appeal route is available.\nRegulation 10 specifies the additional powers of an adjudication officer, including the ability to make an interim payment, process a claim despite all of the required information not being available, or to review a determination.\nRegulation 12 makes transitional provision with respect to reservists who are in relevant service before these Regulations come into force and continue in that service after these Regulations come into force. It allows an employer or partner of such a reservist to make a claim under these Regulations in respect of a period beginning on the date on which these Regulations come into force.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2410/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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