PART IV ADMINISTRATION

CHAPTER IV DETERMINATIONS, INFORMATION AND RECORDS

Resolution of disputes

101 Reference of disagreement to the Secretary of State
1 Where an application about a disagreement has been made under regulation 99, an application may be made to the Secretary of State to reconsider the disagreement by the person who applied under regulation 99 or the Scheme employer in question.
2 The application must set out particulars of the grounds on which it is made, including a statement that the applicant under this regulation wishes the disagreement to be reconsidered by the Secretary of State.
3 An application made by the person who applied under regulation 99 must set out the matters required by paragraph (4) or, as the case may be, paragraph (5) of that regulation to be included in his application.
4 The application must be accompanied by a copy of any written notification issued under regulation 97.
5 Where notice of a decision on the application under regulation 99 has been issued, the application under this regulation must state why the applicant is dissatisfied with that decision and be accompanied by a copy of that notice.
6 The application must be signed by or on behalf of the person making it.
7 An application for reconsideration may only be made before the expiry of the period of six months beginning with the relevant date.
8 Where notice of a decision on the matters raised by the application under regulation 99 has been issued, the relevant date is the date of that notice.
9 Where–
(a) an interim reply has been sent under regulation 100(3); but
(b) no notice of decision has been issued before the expiry of the period of one month beginning with the date specified in the reply as the expected date for issuing the decision,
the relevant date is the date on which that period expires.
10 Where no notice of decision has been issued or interim reply has been sent before the expiry of the period of three months beginning with the date the application under regulation 99 was made, the relevant date is the date on which that period expires.