The Valuation and Community Charge Tribunals Regulations 1989

Regulations 3, 4

SCHEDULE 1ESTABLISHMENT OF TRIBUNALS

Regulation 10

SCHEDULE 2MEMBERS' ALLOWANCES

Financial loss allowance

1.  In respect of his performance of any approved duty, a member shall be entitled to an allowance, not exceeding the appropriate amount specified in Table A, in respect of loss of earnings necessarily suffered, or individual expenses (other than expenses on account of travelling or subsistence) necessarily incurred by him for the purpose of enabling him to perform that duty.

Subsistence allowances

2.—(1) In respect of his performance of any approved duty, a member shall be entitled to an allowance not exceeding the appropriate amount specified in Table B and calculated in accordance with this paragraph.

(2) For the purposes of this paragraph–

(a)where the member travels directly from, or to, his usual place of residence or business to, or from, the place at which the duty is to be performed, the duty shall be treated as beginning or, as the case may be, ending at the time at which he left or returned to that place of residence or business; and where he does not so travel, it shall be treated as beginning or, as the case may be, ending at the time at which he would ordinarily have left from, or returned to, that place;

(b)different periods of duty on any one day shall be added together;

(c)no more than one hour of any meal break may be treated as included in the performance of the duty.

3.—(1) In respect of his performance of any approved duty whose duration exceeds 4 hours, a member shall be entitled to an allowance of £4.00.

(2) Paragraphs (b) and (c) of paragraph 2(2) shall apply for the purposes of this paragraph.

4.  Where by reason of the time at which an approved duty begins or ends a member necessarily spends a period of 24 hours or longer away from his usual place of residence, he shall be entitled to an allowance–

(a)not exceeding £60.40 per night spent away from that place of residence, in respect of a duty to be performed in inner London, or of attendance at the annual conference of the Rating and Valuation Association, or

(b)not exceeding £52.95 per night so spent in any other case,

but shall not be so entitled in relation to any such night in respect of which the member’s overnight accommodation is provided at the expense of the Secretary of State.

Travelling allowances

5.—(1) In respect of his performance of any approved duty, a member shall be entitled to an allowance not exceeding the appropriate amount specified in this paragraph in respect of travel necessarily undertaken for the purpose of enabling him to perform the duty.

(2) Where the travel is by public transport, the appropriate amount is, subject to sub-paragraph (3), the amount of the fare paid by the member, not exceeding the ordinary fare or any available cheap fare or, where more than one class of travel is available, the first class fare.

(3) Where by reason of the time at which an approved duty begins or ends a member necessarily incurs expenses in connection with the provision of overnight sleeping accommodation on public transport, he shall be entitled to an allowance equivalent to the cost of such accommodation less one third of any allowance to which he is entitled under paragraph 4.

(4) Where the travel is by means of his own private motor vehicle, or such a vehicle provided for his use, the appropriate amount is 27.3p multiplied by the number of miles travelled, plus any expenditure in respect of parking fees, tolls, or the transport of the vehicle by ferry.

(5) Where the travel is by means of a taxi-cab or hired motor vehicle, the appropriate amount, subject to sub-paragraph (6), is 27.3p per mile multiplied by the number of miles travelled.

(6) Where the travel is by means of a taxi-cab solely by reason of urgency, the appropriate amount is the fare paid.

Interpretation

6.  In this Schedule–

“approved duty” means attendance at any meeting of the tribunal or the doing of any thing for or in connection with the discharge of its functions; and

“inner London” means the City of London, the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple and the London boroughs of Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth and Westminster.

Regulation 30

SCHEDULE 3CONTENTS OF RECORDS