Notwithstanding anything in section 50(4) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (conditions of time off for public duties), where—
it shall be unlawful for the authority to make any payment of remuneration or other payment to that employee in respect of so much (if any)of any time off for that purpose as is in excess of two hundred and eight hours in any one financial year and is time off to which the employee would not be entitled apart from his membership of that council.
In this section—
"chairman", in relation to a relevant council, includes any corresponding office the holder of which is referred to as mayor or Lord Mayor or by any other description;
"employee" has the same meaning as in the the Employment Rights Act 1996;
"financial year" means the twelve months ending with 31st March;...
"local authority" includes a corporate joint committee; and
"relevant council" means the council of any county, county borough district or London borough, the Common Council of the City of London, a parish orcommunity council or any council in Scotland which is a local authority for the purposes of subsection (2) of section 50 of that Act (time off for public duties);
and subsection (3) of that section (meaning of duties of a member of a body) shall apply for the purposes of this section as it applies for the purposes of that section.