{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-members-allowances-england-regulations-2003/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-members-allowances-england-regulations-2003/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1021",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) (England) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-members-allowances-england-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Requirements for schemes",
  "text": "(1) Before the beginning of each year, an authority shall make the scheme required by regulation 4(1)(a) for the payment of basic allowance for that year.\n(2) The scheme shall also make provision for the following allowances if an authority intends to make such payments in respect of the year—\n(a) special responsibility allowance;\n(b) dependants' carers' allowance;\n(c) travelling and subsistence allowance; and\n(d) co-optees' allowance.\n(3) Subject to regulation 12 the scheme may be amended at any time but may only be revoked with effect from the beginning of a year.\n(4) A scheme may make provision for an annual adjustment of allowances by reference to such index as may be specified by the authority and where the only change made to a scheme in any year is that effected by such annual adjustment in accordance with such index the scheme shall be deemed not to have been amended.\n(5) Where an authority has regard to an index for the purpose of annual adjustment of allowances it must not rely on that index for longer than a period of four years before seeking a further recommendation from the independent remuneration panel established in respect of that authority on the application of an index to its scheme.\n(6) Where an amendment is to be made 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.\n(7) A scheme may provide that where payment of any allowance has already been made in respect of any period during which the member concerned is\n(a) suspended or partially suspended from his responsibilities or duties as a member of the authority in accordance with Part III of the Local Government Act 2000 or regulations made under that Part;\n(b) ceases to be a member of the authority; or\n(c) is in any other way not entitled to receive the allowance in respect of that period,\nthe authority may require that such part of the allowance as relates to any such period be repaid to the authority.\n(8) Where the scheme is revoked in accordance with this regulation or regulation 12, an authority shall before the revocation takes effect make a further scheme for the period beginning with the date on which the revocation takes effect and ending at the end of the year in question.\n(9) A scheme must make provision to ensure that where a member of an authority is also a member of another authority, that member may not receive allowances from more than one authority in respect of the same duties.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 10 in force at 1.5.2003, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1021/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:26:25.763552+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."
}