The Local Authorities (Allowances) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988

Made: 2nd March 1988

Laid before Parliament: 11th March 1988

Coming into force: 1st April 1988

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 [^f00001], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Authorities (Allowances) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st April 1988.

• (2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Local Authorities (Allowances) (Scotland) Regulations 1975 [^f00002].

Increase in rates of attendance allowance and financial loss allowance

2

In regulation 3 of the principal Regulations—

• (a) in paragraph (1) (which prescribes the rate of attendance allowance) for “£17.55” there shall be substituted “£18.25”, and

• (b) in paragraph (2) (which prescribes the rate of financial loss allowance)—

• (i) in sub-paragraph (a)

for “£13.75” there shall be substituted “£14.85”; and

• (ii) in sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) for “£27.50” where it occurs, there shall be substituted “£29.70”.

Increase in rates of special responsibility allowance

3

In paragraph (1) of regulation 3A of the principal Regulations (which prescribes the maximum rate of special responsibility allowance)—

• (a) in sub-paragraph (a) for “£4,965” there shall be substituted “£5,215”; and

• (b) in sub-paragraph (b) for “£500” in both cases where it occurs there shall be substituted “£525”.

4

For any amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations 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

5

The Local Authorities (Allowances) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1987 [^f00003] are hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE

Signed

James Douglas-Hamilton — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,Scottish Office — 2nd March 1988

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 (regulations 3 and 4).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 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.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1975/686; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1981/333 and 1987/1381

[^f00003]: S.I. 1987/1381