1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Reorganisation (Compensation for Loss of Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.

(2) In these Regulations, "the 1995 Regulations" means the Local Government Reorganisation (Compensation for Loss of Remuneration) Regulations 1995(2).

2. For regulation 2(2) of the 1995 Regulations there shall be substituted the following paragraph:

"(2) For the purposes of these Regulations-

(a)any registration officer shall be deemed to be an officer in employment under a relevant contract with the county council or county borough council which made the scheme under section 14 of the 1953 Act for the district or sub-district in or for which the registration officer holds office; and

(b)any coroner shall be deemed to be an officer in employment under a relevant contract with the relevant council (within the meaning of the Coroners Act 1988(3)) by which he was appointed,

and any reference in these Regulations-

(i)to "employment", "employer" or "employed" shall be construed accordingly; and

(ii)to a "contract of employment" or "contract" shall be construed as a reference to the terms and conditions of the appointment of registration officer or coroner, as the case may be.".

3. In regulation 4 of the 1995 Regulations, there shall be added the following paragraph:

"(2) Sub-paragraph (b) in paragraph (1) above shall not apply to a coroner who is aged under 70 on the date on which the relevant compensation period commences.".

4. In regulation 8 of the 1995 Regulations:

(a)in sub-paragraph (b) in paragraph (1), there shall be inserted at the beginning the words"subject to paragraph (1A) below,"; and

(b)after paragraph (1), there shall be inserted the following paragraph:

"(1A) Sub-paragraph (b) in paragraph (1) above shall apply to an eligible person who is a coroner as if for the number "65" there were substituted the number "70".".

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Local Government Reorganisation (Compensation for Loss of Remuneration) Regulations 1995 ("the 1995 Regulations") so as to provide for the payment of compensation to coroners who suffer a loss or reduction of remuneration as a consequence of any provision of an order made under section 17 of the Local Government Act 1992, implementing local government changes for England or any provision made by or under the Local government (Wales) Act 1994, implementing local government changes for Wales. Sub-para graphs (a), (i) and (ii) of the new regulation 2(2) of the 1995 Regulations repeat provisions in the existing regulation 2(2).