Standard remuneration agreements

22.  In regulation G3–

(a)the existing provision shall be numbered “(1)”; and

(b)at the end there shall be added–

(2) Where such an agreement is in force, then the whole or, as the case may be, the specified part of the remuneration of an employee who is a member of the class or, as the case may be, is of the description specified, shall, in respect of the period during which that agreement remains in force and the employee remains in employment with the scheduled body in question as an employee of that class or description, be deemed for the purposes of these Regulations to be the amount determined in accordance with the method specified.

(3) Where a scheduled body enter into an agreement under paragraph (1), they shall notify in writing every employee of theirs who is a member of a class or, as the case may be, an employee of a description, to which the agreement relates, including in the notification a conspicuous statement directing the attention of the employee to the place where he may obtain information about details of the agreement.

(4) The notification required by paragraph (3) shall be sent to an employee–

(a)if he is in the employment of the scheduled body on the date the agreement was made, as soon as is reasonably practicable after that date; and

(b)if he enters the employment later, within three months after entering it..