Councillors' Code of Conduct

1. Within 28 days of becoming a member or your re-election or re-appointment to office you must register with the Monitoring Officer the interests which fall within the categories set out in Table 1. You should also register details of your other personal interests which fall within the categories set out in Table 2.
   
    
2. You must ensure that your register of interests is kept up-to-date and within 28 days of becoming aware of any new interest, or of any change to a registered interest, notify the Monitoring Officer.
   
    
3. Where you have a 'sensitive interest' you must notify the Monitoring Officer with the reasons why you believe it is a sensitive interest. If the Monitoring Officer agrees they will withhold the interest from the public register. Non participation in case of disclosable pecuniary interest
   
    
4. Where a matter arises at a meeting which directly relates to one of your Disclosable Pecuniary Interests, you must disclose the interest, not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless you have been granted a dispensation. If it is a 'sensitive interest', you do not have to disclose the nature of the interest, just that you have an interest. Dispensation may be granted in limited circumstances, to enable you to participate and vote on a matter in which you have a disclosable pecuniary interest. Disclosure of Other Registerable Interests
   
    
5. Where a matter arises at a meeting which directly relates to one of your Other Registerable Interests, you must disclose the interest. You may speak on the matter only if members of the public are also allowed to speak at the meeting but otherwise must not take part in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless you have been granted a dispensation.

6. If it is a 'sensitive interest', you do not have to disclose the nature of the interest.

Disclosure of Non-Registerable Interests

1. Where a matter arises at a meeting which directly relates to your financial interest or wellbeing (and is not a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest) or a financial interest or well-being of a relative or close associate, you must disclose the interest.
   
    
2. You may speak on the matter only if members of the public are also allowed to speak at the meeting but otherwise must not take part in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless you have been granted a dispensation. If it is a 'sensitive interest', you do not have to disclose the nature of the interest.
   
    
3. Where a matter arises at a meeting which affects:
   
    
   1.  Your own financial interest or well-being
   2. A financial interest or well-being of a friend, relative, close associate; or
   3. A body included in those you need to disclose under Disclosable Pecuniary Interests you must disclose the interest. In order to determine whether you can remain in the meeting after disclosing your interest, the following test should be applied
      
       
4. Where a matter affects your financial interest or well-being:
   
    
   1.  To a greater extent than it affects the financial interests of the majority of inhabitants of the ward affected by the decision and;
   2. A reasonable member of the public knowing all the facts would believe that it would affect your view of the wider public interest, you may speak on the matter only if members of the public are also allowed to speak at the meeting but otherwise must not take part in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless you have been granted a dispensation.
      
       
5. If it is a 'sensitive interest', you do not have to disclose the nature of the interest.
   
    
6. Where you have a personal interest in any business of the Council and you have made an executive decision in relation to that business, you must make sure that any written statement of that decision records the existence and nature of your interest.