Combined or further applicationsI17
1
Where, in relation to an occupational pension scheme—
a
two or more applications for a review of a reviewable determination which relate to scheme notification or scheme eligibility are made to the scheme manager; and
b
those applications are made on the same or substantially the same grounds and are supported by the same or substantially the same evidence,
the scheme manager may, for the purposes of these Regulations, give a single review decision in respect of them.
2
Where, in relation to an occupational pension scheme, the scheme manager gives a review decision in respect of an application for a review of a reviewable determination (“the first application”), the scheme manager may immediately give a review decision on the same basis in respect of other applications which relate to that determination (“a subsequent review decision”) if they are made on the same or substantially the same grounds and are supported by the same or substantially the same evidence as the first application.
3
For the purposes of paragraph (2), it does not matter whether the other applications were made before or after the first application.
4
Regulations 8(1)(b)(i) to (iii) and (3), 9(3) and (4) and 16(1) and (3) shall not have effect for the purposes of the scheme manager giving a subsequent review decision.