These Regulations amend the Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) Regulations 1991.

Regulation 2 enables National Park authorities to pay to their members travelling and subsistence allowances, and allowances for attendance at conferences and meetings; and requires them to make schemes for the payment of basic, attendance and special responsibility allowances. Regulation 3 makes transitional provision for National Park authorities in England.

Regulation 4 increases, by 2.9 per cent., the maxima which may be payable to parish and community councillors and to non-elected members of local authorities by way of allowances under section 173(1) (attendance allowance) and section 175 (allowances in respect of attendance at conferences and meetings) of the Local Government Act 1972, and also increases by 3.6 per cent. the maximum payable by way of allowances under section 173(4) (financial loss allowance) of that Act.