The Reserve Forces (Payments to Employers and Partners) Regulations 2014

Additional powers of adjudication officers

10.—(1) An adjudication officer may—

(a) treat a requirement to provide information or documentation under regulation 7 as having been satisfied if the adjudication officer already has that information or documentation when the claimant makes the claim;

(b) proceed to process a claim where information or documentation required under regulation 7 has not been provided in accordance with that regulation if the claimant undertakes to provide such information or documentation as soon as it becomes available;

(c) make an interim payment pending the determination of a claim;

(d) review a determination at any time until the beginning of the hearing by a reserve forces appeal tribunal of an appeal against that determination or the expiry of 6 years, whichever is the earlier;

(e) following any review of a determination, set aside the determination and substitute a new determination.

(2) If an adjudication officer proposes to exercise the power under paragraph (1)(d), the adjudication officer must provide written notice of his or her intention to do so to the claimant as soon as reasonably practicable.