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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-etc-allowances-scotland-regulations-1995/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-etc-allowances-scotland-regulations-1995/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/912",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities Etc. (Allowances) (Scotland) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-etc-allowances-scotland-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Payments",
  "text": "A scheme made by a joint board under this Part shall provide that—\n(a) each constituent council shall notify the joint board before the beginning of a year to which the scheme relates of the amount, if any, which that council has allocated towards payment of special responsibility allowances for that year under the scheme;\n(b) any special responsibility allowance payable under the scheme in relation to any year shall be paid by each constituent council in the proportion which the amount, if any, for that year which that council has notified to the joint board in accordance with paragraph (a) bears to the aggregate amount for that year which all the constituent councils have notified to the joint board in accordance with that paragraph; and\n(c) any payment by a constituent council by way of special responsibility allowance under the scheme in relation to any year is conditional on the aggregate amount which that constituent council and any other constituent council have paid out or are already liable to pay out by way of such allowance under the scheme in relation to that year not exceeding the total of the amounts, if any, which each constituent council has notified to the joint board in accordance with paragraph (a).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/912/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:12:03.687933+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}