Issue - meetings

Declarations of Interest

Meeting: 03/06/2019 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 16)

Declarations of Interest

A member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered:

 

(i) must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and

(ii) may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room.

 

A member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Register of Members’ Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.

 

Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interests are defined at Paragraphs 5-7 and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct

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Minutes:

Cllr Moyeed declared that he had a prejudicial interest in relation to the work plan at Agenda Item 15. The work plan report included a recommendation for the Committee to agree to transfer the Wards Corner Review from the H&R Panel to OSC. Cllr Moyeed advised that he had provided legal advice to a trader at Wards Corner, however this was against a third party rather than the Council. Cllr Moyeed advised that he would excuse himself for Agenda Item 15.