{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-members-allowances-england-regulations-2003/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-members-allowances-england-regulations-2003/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Dependants' carers' allowance",
  "text": "(1) A scheme may provide for the payment to members of an authority of an allowance (“dependants' carers' allowance”) 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 makes 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 at least one other local authority within the meaning of section 270(1) of the Local Government Act 1972, or a sub-committee of such a joint committee, provided that—\n(i) where the authority is 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 is 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 is a member;\n(d) the attendance at a meeting of the executive or a meeting of any of its committees, where the authority is operating executive arrangements;\n(e) the performance of any duty in pursuance of any standing order made under section 135 of the Local Government Act 1972 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;\n(g) the performance of any duty in connection with arrangements made by the authority for the attendance of pupils at any school approved for the purposes of section 342 of the Education Act 1996 (approval of non-maintained special schools); and\n(h) the carrying out of any other duty approved by the authority, or any duty of a class so approved, for the purpose of, or in connection with, the discharge of the functions of the authority or any of its committees or sub-committees.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation, “authority” means an authority of any description specified in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) of regulation 3(1).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 1.5.2003, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 56; section 342 was substituted by paragraph 82 of Schedule 30 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1021/regulation/7",
    "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."
}