Regulation 5 Application of Part II and interpretation

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg.5(1) substituted by Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) 1996 reg.2(3)(a)
reg.5(2)(b) amended by Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) 1996 reg.2(3)(b)
regs.5-10 applied by National Park Authorities 1995 art.18, Sch -5, para.5(3)
reg. 5(1)(a) words inserted by Greater London Authority Act 1999 (Consequential Amendments of Subordinate Legislation) (Fire etc Authority) 2000 Sch. para. 4(3)
reg. 5(2)(b) words inserted by Greater London Authority Act 1999 (Consequential Amendments of Subordinate Legislation) (Fire etc Authority) 2000 Sch. para. 4(4)

(1)

This Part applies to–

(a)

any county council;

(b)

any district council;

(c)

any London borough council;

(d)

any joint authority; and

(e)

the Council of the Isles of Scilly.

(2)

For the purposes of this Part –

(a)

members of an authority are to be treated as divided into political groups if they are so treated for the purposes of section 15 (political balance on committees etc.) of the 1989 Act; and “political group” shall be construed accordingly;

(b)

the term of office of a councillor who is a member of an authority specified in paragraph (1) other than a joint authority shall begin on the date on which he makes a declaration of acceptance of that office under section 83(1) of the 1972 Act^f1.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 83(1) was amended by the Local Government Act 1972 (References to Aldermen) Order 1977 (S.I. 1977/1710); the Local Government Act 1985, Schedule 17; and the Local Government and Housing Act 1989, section 30(2); it was applied to the Council of the Isles of Scilly by article 6 of the Isles of Scilly Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/1844).