The Reserve Forces (Call-out and Recall) (Financial Assistance) Regulations 2005

Pensions payments

5.—(1) If the reservist is a member of an occupational pension scheme (“the pension scheme”) into which his employer made contributions for the benefit of the reservist, his spouse or partner or any dependants, and such contributions are suspended by his employer during the relevant period—

(a) if the reservist elects to stay in that scheme during the relevant period; and

(b) the reservist continues to pay any contributions required of him into that scheme,

he shall be entitled to apply to an adjudication officer for a continuation of those contributions which his employer would have made into his pension scheme.

(2) When making a claim under this regulation the reservist must provide the documentation and information specified in paragraph (3) of regulation 11.

(3) An adjudication officer may direct that—

(a) the person to whom any pension contributions would have been made by the employer shall accept a payment made under this regulation as if it was a payment made into the pension scheme by the employer; and

(b) the person to whom any pension contributions are to be made by the reservist shall accept such contributions.

(4) The Secretary of State may by written notice require any person to whom such payments have been made under this regulation to provide to him, or such other person as may be designated by him, information regarding the use made of that money.

(5) This regulation shall only apply where the relevant date of the reservist falls on or after the 14th April 2005.