The Local Authorities (Members' Allowances) (England) Regulations 2003

Records of parish allowances

31.—(1) An authority shall keep a record of the payments made by it in respect of—

(a) parish basic allowance; and

(b) parish travelling and subsistence allowance.

(2) Such a record shall—

(a) specify the name of the recipient and the amount and nature of each payment;

(b) be available for inspection on reasonable notice and at no charge, by any local government elector for the area of that authority; and

(c) be supplied in copy to any person who is entitled to inspect a record under paragraph (b) and who requests a copy and pays to the authority such reasonable fee as it may determine.

(3) As soon as reasonably practicable after the end of a year, an authority shall arrange for the publication, for a period of at least 14 days, of a notice in a conspicuous place or places in the area of the authority stating the total sum paid by it in the year to each member in respect of each of the following—

(a) parish basic allowance; and

(b) parish travelling and subsistence allowance.