Definitions

For the purposes of this Code of Conduct:

  • "councillor" means a member or co-opted member of a local authority or a directly elected mayor.

     
  • "co-opted member" is a person who is not a member of the authority but who
    • a) is a member of any committee or sub-committee of the authority, or;
    • b) is a member of, and represents the authority on, any joint committee or joint subcommittee of the authority; and
    • who is entitled to vote on any question that falls to be decided at any meeting of that committee or sub-committee.

       
  • "director" includes a member of the committee of management of an industrial and provident society.

     
  • "Disclosable pecuniary interest" means an interest of yourself, or of your partner if you are aware of your partner's interest, within the descriptions set out in Table 1 in Appendix B.

     
  • "Other Registerable Interest" means an interest of yourself within the descriptions set out in Table 2 in Appendix B.

     
  • "Partner" means a spouse or civil partner, or a person with whom you are living as husband or wife, or a person with whom you are living as if you are civil partners.

     
  • "local authority" includes
    • county councils,
    • district councils,
    • London borough councils,
    • parish councils,
    • town councils,
    • fire and rescue authorities,
    • police authorities,
    • joint authorities,
    • economic prosperity boards,
    • combined authorities and
    • National Park authorities.

       
  • "securities" means
    • shares,
    • debentures,
    • debenture stock,
    • loan stock,
    • bonds,
    • units of a collective investment scheme within the meaning of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;
    • and other securities of any description, other than money deposited with a building society.

       
  • A "sensitive interest" is as an interest which, if disclosed, could lead to you, or a person connected with you, being subject to violence or intimidation.