The Reserve Forces (Call-out and Recall) (Financial Assistance) Regulations 1997

PART V MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Increase of rates of average weekly earnings

15.  If the period of relevant service is still in progress on the first or subsequent anniversary of the relevant date, the average weekly earnings for the purposes of a reservist’s standard award or regulation 5(2)(b) above shall be increased with effect from that anniversary by such percentage as appears to the Secretary of State to represent the average rate of increase in incomes in the United Kingdom in the year ending with that anniversary.

Power to compel acceptance of pension payments and provision of information as to use of pension payments

16.—(1) This regulation applies where an adjudication officer makes an award under these Regulations which includes a sum for the loss of any payment made into a pension scheme by an employer for the benefit of the reservist, his spouse or dependants.

(2) The adjudication officer may direct that the person to whom any such payment would have been made, but for the reservist’s performance of relevant service, shall accept such sum as if (for the purpose of these Regulations only) it were a payment into the scheme by the employer.

(3) The Secretary of State may by written notice require any person to whom any payment referred to in this regulation has been made to provide to the Secretary of State or other person named in the notice information about the use made of that money.