{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-members-allowances-england-regulations-2003/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-members-allowances-england-regulations-2003/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application of these Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Any reference in this Part and Parts 2 and 3 of these Regulations to an authority shall, unless otherwise specified be construed as a reference to a body of one of the following descriptions—\n(a) a district council;\n(b) a county council;\n(c) a London borough council;\n(d) the Council of the Isles of Scilly;\n(e) a fire and rescue authority constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies;\n(f) a joint authority established by Part IV of the Local Government Act 1985;\n(g) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(h) the Broads Authority;\n(i) a National Park authority; and\n(j) a conservation board of an area of outstanding natural beauty;\n(2) For the purposes of section 18 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989—\n(a) the bodies referred to at sub-paragraphs (h) and (j) of paragraph (l) are hereby designated as relevant authorities; and\n(b) any member of an authority listed in paragraph (l) shall be treated as if he were a councillor.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3(1)(e) substituted (30.12.2004) by The Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) (England) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/3168), arts. 1(1), 68(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 3(1)(g) omitted (1.4.2018) by virtue of The London Government (London Fire Commissioner and Policing) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/269), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 7(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 1.5.2003, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 51."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Established by the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988 (c. 4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "As established by the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25). Under paragraph 11 of Schedule 7 to that Act, a National Park authority is a relevant authority for the purposes of section 18 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "See section 86 of and Schedule 13 to the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c. 37) for provisions as to the establishment of conservation boards."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Section 18(5)(b) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 provides that Regulations made under section 18 may apply to a body on which any relevant authority within the meaning of that section is represented and which is designated a relevant authority."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Section 18(6) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 provides that any reference to a councillor in that section includes a reference to a member of the authority concerned who, in accordance with regulations made under that section, is to be treated as if he were a councillor."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/1011",
      "affecting_title": "The Surrey (Structural Changes) (Pensions etc.) Order 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1021/regulation/3",
    "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."
}