Explanatory note

These Regulations revoke and replace the Justices’ Allowances Regulations 1976 (S.I. 1976/117) and the Justices’ Allowances (Amendment) Regulations 1976 (S.I. 1976/2118) governing the claiming of allowances by lay justices for travelling, subsistence or financial loss under section 15 of the Courts Act 2003.

Regulation 2 requires any lay justice who wants to claim their allowances to submit an Annual Declaration. Schedule 1 prescribes the form of the Annual Declaration.

Regulation 2 requires any lay justice who wants to claim their allowances to do so on the prescribed form set out at Schedule 2 to the Regulations. A different format (such as an electronic format) may be used with the Lord Chancellor’s agreement.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.