Regulation 5 Mileage allowances for travel

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

regs 5, 6 am by Local Government (Allowances and Expenses) 2010 reg 2
regs 4, 5 am (10.2.2009) by Local Government (Allowances and Expenses) 2008 reg 2
regs 4, 5 am by Local Government (Allowances and Expenses) 2010 reg 2
reg. 5(4)(a) words substituted by Local Government (Allowances and Expenses) 2011 reg. 2(2)
reg. 5(4)(d) words inserted by Local Government (Allowances and Expenses) 2010 reg. 2(3)(b)
reg. 5(4)(aa) inserted by Local Government (Allowances and Expenses) 2010 reg. 2(3)(a)
reg. 5(5) inserted by Local Government (Allowances and Expenses) 2010 reg. 2(4)
reg. 5(4)(a) words substituted by Local Government (Allowances and Expenses) 2008 reg. 2(4)
reg. 5(5) words inserted by Local Government (Allowances and Expenses) 2010 reg. 2(3)

(1)

No local authority shall make any payments to its members by way of travel or subsistence allowances (as opposed to the reimbursement of receipted expenditure incurred) in respect of carrying out any approved duty, except where that is permitted by these Regulations.

(2)

A member of a local authority shall be entitled to receive payments by way of a mileage allowance in respect of travelling (whether inside or outside the United Kingdom) which is reasonably incurred by them for the purpose of enabling them to perform any approved duty as a member of that local authority.

(3)

The mileage allowance shall be payable only in respect of the types of travelling, and at the rates for each type, described in paragraph (4).

(4)

Those types of travelling and rates are–

(a)

car or van – 49.3 pence per mile;

(b)

motorcycle – 24 pence per mile;

(c)

bicycle – 20 pence per mile; and

(d)

passenger travelling (where both the member and the passengers are carrying out any approved duties) – an additional sum of 5 pence per mile, per passenger.