The Local Authorities (Allowances) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1987

Statutory Instruments

1987 No. 1381 (S.101)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND

The Local Authorities (Allowances) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1987

Made

31st July 1987

Laid before Parliament

11th August 1987

Coming into force

1st September 1987

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 45, 49A, 50 and 235 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Authorities (Allowances) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1987.

(2) These Regulations shall come into force on 1st September 1987.

Increase in rates of attendance allowance and financial loss allowance

2.  In regulation 3 of the Local Authorities (Allowances) (Scotland) Regulations 1975(2)—

(a) in paragraph (1) (which prescribes the rate of attendance allowance) for “£16.70” there shall be substituted “£17.55”, and

(b) in paragraph (2) (which prescribes the rate of financial loss allowance) at sub-paragraph (a) for “£12.70” there shall be substituted “£13.75” and at sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) for “£25.40” where it occurs, there shall be substituted “£27.50”.

Increase in rates of special responsibility allowance

3.  The Local Authorities (Allowances) (Scotland) Regulations 1975 shall be further amended as follows:—

(a) in paragraph (1) of regulation 3A (which prescribes the maximum rate of special responsibility allowance) at sub-paragraph (a) for “£4,775” there shall be substituted “£4,965” and at sub-paragraph (b) for “£480” in both cases where it occurs there shall be substituted “£500”, and

(b) for any amount specified in Schedule 2 which is mentioned in column 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations there shall be substituted the amount set opposite thereto in column 3 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

Revocation

4.  The Local Authorities (Allowances) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1986(3) are hereby revoked.

James Douglas-Hamilton

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,Scottish Office

New St. Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

31st July 1987

Regulation 3(b)

SCHEDULE

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
	Old rate	New rate
1.  A regional council with a population:
(a) exceeding 1 million	£25,065	£26,070
(b) exceeding 500,000 but not exceeding 1 million	£17,900	£18,615
(c) exceeding 250,000 but not exceeding 500,000	£13,125	£13,650
(d) not exceeding 250,000	£7,165	£7,450
2.  An islands council	£5,370	£5,585
3.  A district council with a population:
(a) exceeding 400,000	£7,165	£7,450
(b) exceeding 200,000 but not exceeding 400,000	£4,775	£4,965
(c) exceeding 150,000 but not exceeding 200,000	£3,580	£3,725
(d) exceeding 100,000 but not exceeding 150,000	£2,390	£2,485
(e) not exceeding 100,000	£1,190	£1,240

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations increase the maximum rate of attendance allowance payable to members of a local authority and also the maximum rate of financial loss allowance payable to members of a local authority and of other bodies for the performance of an approved duty and who are not entitled to attendance allowance (regulation 2). The Regulations also increase the maximum rates of special responsibility allowance which may be paid by a local authority under section 49A of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and also the total amounts which a local authority may pay thereunder by way of such an allowance in any financial year (regulation 3).

(1)

1973 c. 65; section 45 was amended by section 60 of the Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 43); section 49A was inserted and section 50 amended by section 26 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65); section 235 contains a definition of “prescribed” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made.

(2)

S.I. 1975/686; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1981/333 and 1986/588.

(3)

S.I. 1986/588.