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Scottish Statutory Instruments
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Made
24th March 2004
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
26th March 2004
Coming into force
3rd May 2004
The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 45(4), 47 and 235(1) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973(1) and sections 18 and 190(1) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989(2) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Local Authorities Etc. (Allowances) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 3rd May 2004.
2. The Local Authorities Etc. (Allowances) (Scotland) Regulations 1995(3) shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 5 below.
3. In regulation 20–
(a)in paragraph (a), for “£25.90” there shall be substituted “£27.21”; and
(b)in each of paragraphs (b) and (c), for “£51.81” there shall be substituted “£54.43”.
4. In regulation 21, for “£30.42” there shall be substituted “£31.96”.
5. In column (2) of Schedule 2–
(a)for “6,969” there shall be substituted “7,321”;
(b)for “6,388” there shall be substituted “6,712”; and
(c)for “5,808” there shall be substituted “6,102”.
6. The Local Authorities Etc. (Allowances) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2002(4) are hereby revoked.
ANDREW P KERR
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh
24th March 2004
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Local Authorities Etc. (Allowances) (Scotland) Regulations 1995, which make provision as to the payment of various allowances to members of Scottish local authorities and joint boards. The amendments all concern increases in the maximum amounts payable by way of allowances.
1973 c. 65; section 45 was repealed by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 12, Part II, but subsection (4) was saved for certain purposes by S.I. 1991/344; section 47 was amended by the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65), section 25(5), the Local Government and Housing Act 1989, Schedule 11, paragraph 34, and the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39), Schedule 14; section 235(1) contains a definition of “prescribed” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made. The functions of the Secretary of State transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).
1989 c. 42; section 18 was amended by the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29), Schedule 4, paragraph 37 and the Education Act 1996 (c. 56), Schedule 37, paragraph 97.
S.I. 1995/912, as amended by S.I. 1997/1631, S.I. 1998/3217 and S.S.I. 2002/15.