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.