Councillors' Code of Conduct

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.