The Local Authorities Etc. (Allowance) (Scotland) Regulations 1991

Financial restrictions

19.—(1) A scheme made by a joint board under this Part shall provide that any payment by a constituent council by way of special responsibility allowance under the scheme in relation to any year is conditional on—

(a) the aggregate amount which that constituent council and any other constituent council have paid out or are already liable to pay out by way of special responsibility allowance under the scheme in relation to that year not exceeding the total of the amounts, if any, which each constituent council has notified to the joint board in accordance with regulation 18(a);

(b) the aggregate amount which the constituent council has paid out or is already liable to pay out in relation to that year—

(i) under the scheme made by the joint board under this Part; and

(ii) under the scheme made by the constituent council under Part II; and

(iii) in the nature of an attendance allowance under section 47 of the 1973 Act; and

(iv) under section 49A of the 1973 Act,

• not exceeding the amount ascertained for that year as mentioned in regulation 13(a) as respects that council; and

(c) the aggregate amount which the constituent council has paid out or is already liable to pay out by way of special responsibility allowance in relation to that year—

(i) under the scheme made by the joint board under this Part; and

(ii) under the scheme made by the constituent council under Part II; and

(iii) under section 49A of the 1973 Act,

• not exceeding 25 per cent of total estimated allowances for that year as mentioned in Regulation 13(d).

(2) A scheme made by a joint board under this Part shall provide that any payment made by a constituent council to a particular member by way of special responsibility allowance for any year under the scheme is conditional on the aggregate amount in relation to that year of—

(a) the total of the amounts which each constituent council has paid out or is already liable to pay out to that member by way of special responsibility allowance in relation to that year under that scheme; and

(b) the total amount which the constitutent council has paid out or is already liable to pay out to that member by way of special responsibility allowance in relation to that year under a scheme made under Part II; and

(c) where that member is entitled to an allowance under section 49A of the 1973 Act, the total amount which the constituent council has paid out or is already liable to pay out to that member in relation to that year under the said section 49A,

not exceeding £7,500.