{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-members-allowances-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-members-allowances-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/469",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) (Amendment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-members-allowances-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "National Park authorities",
  "text": "(1) The principal regulations are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 3 (bodies prescribed for the purposes of travelling, subsistence and conference etc. allowances) there is added at the end—\n“and for the purposes of sections 174 and 175 of the 1972 Act a National Park authority shall be treated as a local authority within the meaning of paragraph (a) above.”.\n(3) In regulation 5 (application of Part II)—\n(a) there is substituted for paragraph (1)—\n“(1) This Part applies—\n(a) in England, to a county, district or London borough council, and the Council of the Isles of Scilly;\n(b) in Wales, to a county or county borough council;\n(c) to any joint authority, and\n(d) to any National Park authority;\nand in relation to a National Park authority references in this Part to a councillor shall (subject to paragraph (2)(b)) be construed as references to a member of that authority appointed by a principal council or the Secretary of State.”; and\n(b) in paragraph (2)(b), after “joint authority”, there are added the words “or a National Park authority”.\n(4) In regulation 10 (attendance allowances), after paragraph (2) there is inserted—\n“(2A) A scheme made by the council for a principal area shall not provide for the payment of an attendance allowance in respect of any duty carried out by a member of the authority who is a councillor in his capacity as a member of a National Park authority appointed by that authority.”\n(5) In regulation 24 (paying certain allowances), there is added at the end—\n“and for the purposes of this regulation a National Park authority shall be treated as a local authority within the meaning of paragraph (a) and as a combined body all the members of which are representatives of local authorities within the meaning of paragraph (b).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Sections 174 and 175 of the Local Government Act 1972 and section 18 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 are applied to National Park authorities by paragraph 11 of Schedule 7 to the Environment Act 1995."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/469/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:51:20.113002+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."
}