Regulation 5 Increase of allowances

(1)

The principal Regulations are amended as follows.

(2)

For paragraph 17(2) from the beginning to “ £25.20” there is substituted—

“(2)

Any payment of an allowance under section 175 of the 1972 Act in the nature of an attendance allowance (other than such a payment by a body to which Part II applies to a member who is a councillor) shall not exceed £26.20”;

(3)

In regulation 18(1) (attendance allowance) for “£25.20” there is substituted, in respect of an approved duty performed on or after 1st April 1995,“ £26.20”.

(4)

In regulation 18(2) (financial loss allowance), in respect of an approved duty performed on or after 1st April 1995—

(a)

in paragraph (a) for “ £21.45” there is substituted “£22.30”; and

(b)

in paragraphs (b) and (c), for “ £42.90” there is substituted “£44.60”.