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2003 No. 2948

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, ENGLAND

TRIBUNALS AND INQUIRIES, ENGLAND

The Town and Country Planning (Costs of Inquiries etc.) (Examination in Public) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2003

  Made 14th November 2003 
  Laid before Parliament 21st November 2003 
  Coming into force 12th December 2003 

The First Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 35B(8) and 303A(8) and (9) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990[1] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and application
     1.  - (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Costs of Inquiries etc.) (Examination in Public) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 12th December 2003.

    (2) These Regulations apply in England only.

Application
     2. These Regulations apply in relation to any person ("the appointed person") who is after 12th December 2003 appointed to conduct, or is appointed as one of the persons who are to conduct, an examination in public under section 35B(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 ("the 1990 Act") and whose remuneration, and travelling or subsistence allowances (if any) in respect of that appointment are to be paid to him by the local planning authority causing the examination to be held.

Standard daily amount
     3. The standard daily amount prescribed under section 303A(8) of the 1990 Act is £333.

Travelling allowances
     4. The travelling allowance prescribed under section 303A(8) of the 1990 Act in respect of the appointed person is - 

Subsistence allowance
     5.  - (1) The subsistence allowance prescribed under section 303A(8) of the 1990 Act, except as specified in paragraph (2), in respect of absence of the appointed person from his usual place of residence for the period described in the first column of Schedule 2 to these Regulations, is the actual cost of meals consumed by that person during that period or the amount specified in relation to it in the second column of that Schedule, whichever is the less.

    (2) For each complete period of 24 hours the appointed person necessarily spends away from his usual place of residence to enable him to conduct the business of the examination in public he shall be entitled to allowances of - 



Signed by authority of the First Secretary of State


Yvette Cooper
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

14th November 2003



SCHEDULE 1
Regulation 4


TRAVELLING ALLOWANCE


Type of Insurance Cylinder capacity of motor cycle
     Up to 125 cc Exceeding 125 cc
Third party 16 pence per mile 24 pence per mile
Comprehensive 18 pence per mile 27 pence per mile



SCHEDULE 2
Regulation 5


SUBSISTENCE ALLOWANCE


Period of absence from usual place of residence Subsistence allowance
Not less than 5 hours but not exceeding 10 hours £4.50
More than 10 hours but not exceeding 12 hours £9.50
More than 12 hours £14.00


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations, which apply in England only, apply in relation to any person who is after 12th December 2003 appointed to conduct, or is appointed as one of the persons who are to conduct, an examination in public under section 35B(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and whose remuneration, and travelling or subsistence allowances (if any), in respect of the appointment are to be paid by the local planning authority.

Examinations in public are a form of administrative hearing which are usually held before the adoption of proposals for the alteration or replacement of a structure plan. Regulation 14 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Plan) (England) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/3280) and the Code of Practice on Structure Plans are relevant to procedures for such hearings. The Code of Practice, contained in Structure Plans - A Guide to Procedures (1999) is available from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, ODPM Free Literature, PO Box 236, Wetherby, LS23 7NB.

These Regulations prescribe a standard daily amount which may be charged for each day the person appointed to hold it is engaged on the examination in public or work connected with it. The amount is £333 per day. This is an increase of approximately 3.1 per cent of the previous standard daily amount of £323 prescribed in S.I. 2003/1179.

These Regulations also prescribe the rates of travelling, subsistence and other allowances. There are no changes to these rates from the rates prescribed in S.I. 2003/1179.

Notes:

 [1] 1990 c. 8. Section 35B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 ("the 1990 Act") was inserted by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34), Schedule 4, paragraph 17, and subsection (8) of that section was inserted by section 1(5) of the Town and Country Planning (Costs of Inquiries etc.) Act 1995 (c. 49) ("the 1995 Act"). Section 303A of the 1990 Act was inserted by section 1(1) of the 1995 Act. See section 336(1) of the 1990 Act for the definition of "prescribed". The functions of the Secretary of State under the sections cited were, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), article 2: see the entry in Schedule 1 for the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, as substituted by article 4 of, and Schedule 3 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/253).back


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  Prepared 21 November 2003

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