14.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a fire authority may provide in respect of the year ending 31 March 2006 and subsequent years, for an annual adjustment of care allowance.
(2) An annual adjustment of care allowance payable to a chairperson, vice-chairperson or member to be made by a fire authority shall not exceed the amount which equals the average of all (if any) annual adjustments made by its constituent authorities to care allowance(1) payable by those authorities in that year under the 2002 Regulations.
(3) Where an adjustment to the amount of care allowance is to be made by a fire authority, that authority may provide for the entitlement to that allowance as adjusted to apply with effect from the beginning of the year in which the adjustment is made.
(4) Where a fire authority does not provide for the entitlement to care allowance as adjusted to apply with effect from the beginning of a year as described in paragraph (3) —
(a)the adjustment shall be effective from the date of adjustment; and
(b)entitlement to that care allowance as adjusted shall be to payment of such proportion of that allowance as the number of days on which that allowance has effect during the year bears to the number of days in that year.
See regulation 10 of S.I. 2002/1895 (W.196).