Councillor Allowances

Allowances for travelling and subsistence may be paid to the Council's members (including co-opted members) for the following approved duties:

• Attendance at meetings of the Council
• Attendance at meetings of the Council’s committees or sub-committees
• Attendance at meetings of some other body (including that body’s core committees or sub-committees discharging that body’s core functions) to which the Council makes appointments or nominations by the Council’s appointed nominee(s)
• Attendance at any other meeting which has both been authorised by the Council, and to which representatives of more than one political group have been invited (including training sessions and briefings)
• Attendance at meetings of a local authority association of which the Council is a member by the Council’s appointed nominee
• Duties undertaken in connection with the discharge of any function of the Council conferred by or under any enactment and empowering or requiring the Council to inspect or authorise the inspection of premises
• Duties undertaken on behalf of the Council in accordance with any procedural rule requiring a member or members to be present while tender documents are opened
• Any other duty approved by the Council, or any duty of a class so approved by the Council or by the Head of Paid Service (or in his absence his nominee) (in consultation with the Group Leaders) for the purpose of, or in connection with, discharging the duties of the Council, its committees or sub-committees (for example (but not limited to) Task and Finish Groups, working groups and Group Leaders’ meetings).
• Attendance at a meeting at which it is necessary for Group Leaders or Chairmen to attend to represent or protect the Council’s interests.
• Mileage for attendance at Parish and Town Council meetings within a Member’s local ward of which they are not already a member and which is within the South Hams Boundary.