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The Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Type Statutory-Instrument

Publication 1999-03-31

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Department Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament

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Made: 31st March 1999

Coming into force: 30th April 1999

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 175(1A) of the Local Government Act 1972¹, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 30th April 1999.

Increase of allowance

2

(1) Regulation 17 (allowance in respect of conferences and meetings) of the Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) Regulations 1991² is amended, in paragraph (2), by the substitution of “£29.48” for “£28.62”.

(2) The amendment made by paragraph (1) aplies in relation to attendance at a conference or meeting on or after 30th April 1999.

Revocation

3

The Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 are hereby revoked with effect from 30th April 1999.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Alan Meale — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions — 30th March 1999

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Jon Owen Jones — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office — 31st March 1999

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) Regulations 1991.

Regulation 2(1) increases, by 3 per cent., to £29.48, the maximum which may be paid to parish and community councillors and to non-elected members of local authorities by way of allowances under section 175(1A) (allowances for attending conferences and meetings) of the Local Government Act 1972.

Regulation 2(2) provides for the increase to have effect in relation to attendances at conferences and meetings on or after 30th April 1999.

Regulation 3 revokes the Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 with effect from 30th April 1999.

Footnotes

1972 c. 70. Section 175(1A) is inserted by paragraph 27 of Schedule 11 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42).

S.I. 1991/351; a relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1998/556.

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