The Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) Regulations 1991

PART V OTHER ALLOWANCES

Definition of “approved duty”

16.  For the purposes of sections 173 to 176 of the 1972 Act “approved duty” means–

(a) any of the duties specified in regulation 10(3)(a) to (c); and

(b) any other duty approved by the body, or any duty of a class so approved, for the purpose of, or in connection with, the discharge of the functions of the body, or of any of its committees or sub-committees.

Financial restrictions – allowances under section 175 of the 1972 Act

17.—(1) Any payment made in respect of any year by a county council, a district council, a London borough council, the Council of the Isles of Scilly or a joint authority of an allowance under section 175 of the 1972 Act in the nature of an attendance allowance to a member who is a councillor is conditional on the aggregate amount which the body in question has paid or is liable to pay for that year by way of such allowances and of allowances under a scheme made under Part II not exceeding the amount determined as mentioned in regulation 12(a).

(2) In any case to which paragraph (1) does not apply, any payment of an allowance under section 175 of the 1972 Act in the nature of an attendance allowance shall not exceed £22.80 for any period not exceeding 24 hours; and for this purpose a period of 24 hours shall begin at 3am.

Financial restrictions – allowances under section 173 of the 1972 Act

18.—(1) The amount prescribed for the purpose of section 173(1) of the 1972 Act (attendance allowance) is £22.80 for any period not exceeding 24 hours; and for this purpose a period of 24 hours shall begin at 3am.

(2) The amount prescribed for the purposes of sections 173(4) of the 1972 Act (financial loss allowance) is–

(a) for a period not exceeding 4 hours, £19.25;

(b) for a period exceeding 4 hours but not exceeding 24 hours, £38.50;

(c) for a period exceeding 24 hours, the aggregate of £38.50 and such amount specified in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) as is appropriate to the number of hours by which the period exceeds 24 hours.

Bodies prescribed under section 177(1)

19.  The following bodies are prescribed in accordance with section 177(1)(f) of the 1972 Act(1)–

(a) the Peak Park Joint Planning Board;

(b) the Lake District Special Planning Board;

(c) a combined police authority;

(d) a joint education committee established under paragraph 3 of Part II of Schedule 1 to the Education Act 1944,(2) of which the members are not all representatives of local authorities; and

(e) the Cheshire Brine Subsidence Compensation Board.

(1)

The substitution of section 177(1) by paragraph 28(2) of Schedule 11 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 is subject to the saving in the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (Commencement No. 11 and Savings) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/344).

(2)

1944 c. 31.