The Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2000

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 2492 (W. 159 )

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WALES

The Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2000

Made

12th September 2000

Coming into force

13th September 2000

The National Assembly for Wales makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers given to the Secretary of State by sections 173(1), (2) and (4) and 175(1A) of the Local Government Act 1972(1) which are now vested in the National Assembly for Wales so far as exercisable in Wales(2).

Citation, commencement and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 13th September 2000.

(2) These Regulations apply to Wales only.

Amendments

2.—(1) The Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) Regulations 1991(3) are amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

(2) In Regulation 17, in paragraph (2), for “£29.48” substitute “£30.39”.

(3) In Regulation 18,

(a) in paragraph (1), for “£29.48” substitute “£30.39”;

(b) in paragraph (2),

(i) in sub-paragraph (a), for “£26.24” substitute “£27.65”; and

(ii) in sub-paragraphs (b) and (c), for “£52.49” substitute “£55.31”.

Revocation

3.  The Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) (Amendment) Regulations 1999(4) and the Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1999(5) are revoked in relation to Wales.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(6).

Dafydd Elis Thomas

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

12th September 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note does not form part of the Regulations)

Section 173 of the Local Government Act 1972 makes provision for a member of, in England, a parish or, in Wales, a community council who is a councillor to receive a payment by way of attendance allowance which does not exceed the amount prescribed by regulations and for a member of such a council who is not entitled to receive such a payment to receive a payment by way of financial loss allowance which does not exceed the amount prescribed by regulations.

Section 175 of the 1972 Act makes provision for the payment to a member of a local authority or of any other body to which that section applies of an allowance for attending a conference or meeting which does not exceed such amount as may be specified in or determined under regulations.

Regulation 17 of the Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) Regulations 1991 specifies an amount for the purpose of section 175 of the 1972 Act and Regulation 18 of those Regulations prescribes amounts for the purposes of section 173 of that Act.

These Regulations amend Regulations 17 and 18 of the 1991 Regulations by increasing the relevant amounts and revoke the Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and the Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 1999 in relation to Wales.

(1)

1972 c. 70. Section 173 was amended by the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65), section 24(1) and by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 11, paragraph 26. Section 175(1A) was inserted by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989, Schedule 11, paragraph 27. For the definition of “prescribed” see section 270 of the 1972 Act.

(2)

See the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).

(3)

S.I. 1991/351; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1999/1086 and S.I. 1999/1087.

(4)

S.I. 1999/1086.

(5)

S.I. 1999/1087.

(6)

1998 c. 38.