# The Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) Regulations 1991, Regulation 8: Basic allowances


(1) A scheme made under this Part shall provide for the payment for each year to which the scheme relates of an allowance (“basic allowance”) to each member of the authority who is a councillor; and the amount of such allowance shall be the same for each such member.
(2) The scheme shall provide that, where the term of office of a member begins or ends otherwise than at the beginning or end of a year, his entitlement shall be to payment of such part of the basic allowance as bears to the whole the same proportion as the number of days during which his term of office as member and councillor subsists bears to the number of days in that year.
(3) Where a scheme is amended as mentioned in paragraph (2) of regulation 7 and the term of office of a member who is a councillor does not subsist throughout the whole of a period mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) of that paragraph, the scheme shall provide that the entitlement of any such member under this regulation shall be to payment of such part of the basic allowance referable to each such period (ascertained in accordance with that sub-paragraph) as bears to the whole the same proportion as the number of days during which his term of office as member and councillor subsists in that period bears to the number of days in the period.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/351/regulation/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-members-allowances-regulations-1991/regulation-8
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