Article 5 Allowances to the members etc

For the purpose of securing that financial loss, travelling and subsistence allowances are payable, and that the expenses of certain visits and conferences can be defrayed, in respect of members of county councils and district councils or of committees or joint committees thereof, including in either case sub-committees, from their coming into office until 1st April 1974, the following provisions, namely—

(a)

section 267 of the Local Government Act 1933 (conferences of local authorities);

(b)

Part VI of the Local Government Act 1948 (allowances to members of local authorities and other bodies); and

(c)

the Local Authorities (Expenses) Act 1956,

shall apply until the said date as if the said councils were

(i)

in the case of (a), local authorities within the meaning of the said Act of 1933;

(ii)

in the cases of (b) and (c), councils to which the said Part VI, or the said Act of 1956, as the case may be, applies.