PART 5Administrative Arrangements
Payment and avoidance of duplication
17.—(1) Any payment of allowances to a member under these Regulations shall be paid by the fire authority of which the member is a member.
(2) A claim for a payment by way of care allowance, travel allowance or subsistence allowance shall include, or be accompanied by, a statement signed by the member that the member has not made and will not make any other claim in respect of the matter to which the claim relates from the fire authority or any other person.
Records of allowances
18.—(1) Every fire authority shall keep a record of the payments made by it in accordance with these Regulations or any scheme made pursuant to them.
(2) Such record shall specify the name of the recipient and the amount and nature of each payment and shall be kept available, at all reasonable times, for inspection (free of charge) by any local government elector (within the meaning of section 270(1) of the 1972 Act) for a constituent authority;
(3) A person who is entitled to inspect a record under paragraph (2) may take a copy of any part of it upon payment of such reasonable fee as may be required by the fire authority.
Publicity
19.—(1) Every fire authority shall, as soon as practicable after the making or amendment of any scheme made pursuant to these Regulations, make arrangements for its publication within the fire authority’s area.
(2) As soon as practicable after the end of each year to which a scheme relates, every fire authority shall make arrangements for the publication within the fire authority’s area of the total sum paid by it in that year under the scheme to each member in respect of each of the following, namely, fire authority allowance, fire authority chairperson’s allowance and fire authority vice-chairperson’s allowance.
(3) As soon as practicable after the end of each year, every fire authority shall make arrangements for the publication within the fire authority’s area of the total sum paid by it in that year to each member in respect of care allowance.
Disapplication
20. Sections 174 and 175 of the 1972 Act shall be disapplied as respects fire authorities.