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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-members-allowances-england-regulations-2001/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-members-allowances-england-regulations-2001/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1280",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) (England) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-members-allowances-england-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Childcare and dependants carers' allowances",
  "text": "An allowance scheme may include provision for the payment to members of district, county or London borough councils of allowances in respect of such expenses of arranging for the care of their children or dependants as are necessarily incurred in—\n(a) the attendance at a meeting of the authority or of any committee or sub-committee of the authority, or of any other body to which the authority make appointments or nominations, or of any committee or sub-committee of such a body;\n(b) the attendance at any other meeting, the holding of which is authorised by the authority, or a committee or sub-committee of the authority, or a joint committee of the authority and one or more local authority within the meaning of section 270(1) of the 1972 Act, or a sub-committee of such a joint committee provided that—\n(i) where the authority are divided into two or more political groups, it is a meeting to which members of at least two such groups have been invited, or\n(ii) if the authority are not so divided, it is a meeting to which at least two members of the authority have been invited;\n(c) the attendance at a meeting of any association of authorities of which the authority are a member;\n(d) the attendance at a meeting of the executive or a meeting of any of its committees, where the authority are operating executive arrangements;\n(e) the performance of any duty in pursuance of any standing order made under section 135 of the 1972 Act requiring a member or members to be present while tender documents are opened;\n(f) the performance of any duty in connection with the discharge of any function of the authority conferred by or under any enactment and empowering or requiring the authority to inspect or authorise the inspection of premises, and\n(g) the performance of any duty in connection with arrangements made by the authority for the attendance of pupils at school approved for the purposes of section 342 (special schools) of the Education Act 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 56."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1280/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:52:13.337328+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."
}