Regulation 6 Amendment of schemes

(1)

A scheme made under this Part may be amended or revoked at any time.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (3), a scheme made under this Part may make provision, in respect of the year ending 31 March 2006 and subsequent years, for an annual adjustment of allowances.

(3)

An annual adjustment to be made by a fire authority shall —

(a)

in the case of fire authority allowance, not exceed the amount which equals the average of all (if any) annual adjustments made by its constituent authorities to basic allowance^f1 payable by those authorities in that year under the 2002 Regulations; and

(b)

in the case of fire authority chairperson’s allowance and fire authority vice-chairperson’s allowance, not exceed the amount which equals the average of all (if any) annual adjustments made by its constituent authorities to special responsibility allowance^f2 payable by those authorities in that year under the 2002 Regulations.

(4)

Where an amendment is to be made to a scheme which affects an allowance payable for the year in which the amendment is made, the scheme may provide for the entitlement to such allowance as amended to apply with effect from the beginning of the year in which the amendment is made.

(5)

Where a scheme does not provide for the entitlement to an allowance as amended to apply with effect from the beginning of a year as described in paragraph (4) —

(a)

the amendment shall be effective from the date of amendment; and

(b)

entitlement to such allowance as amended shall be to payment of such proportion of that allowance as the number of days on which that allowance has effect during that year bears to the number of days in that year.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: See regulation 7 of S.I. 2002/1895 (W.196).
f2: See regulation 8 of S.I. 2002/1895 (W.196).