Declarations of Interest
All Members who believe they have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in any matter to be considered at the meeting must declare that interest and, having regard to Part 3 Paragraph 1.5 of the County Council's Members’ Code of Conduct, leave the meeting while the matter is discussed, save for exercising any right to speak in accordance with Paragraph 1.6 of the Code. Furthermore all Members with a Personal Interest in a matter being considered at the meeting should consider, having regard to Part 5, Paragraph 4 of the Code, whether such interest should be declared, and having regard to Part 5, Paragraph 5 of the Code, consider whether it is appropriate to leave the meeting while the matter is discussed, save for exercising any right to speak in accordance with the Code.
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Minutes:
Members were mindful that where they believed
they had a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in any matter considered
at the meeting they must declare that interest at the time of the
relevant debate and, having regard to the circumstances described
in Part 1, Paragraph 1.5 of the County Council’s
Members’ Code of Conduct, leave the meeting while the matter
was discussed, save for exercising any right to speak in accordance
with Paragraph 1.6 of the Code.
Furthermore Members were mindful that where they believed they had
a Non-Pecuniary interest in a matter being considered at the
meeting they considered whether such interest should be declared,
and having regard to Part 5, Paragraph 2 of the Code, considered
whether it was appropriate to leave the meeting whilst the matter
was discussed, save for exercising any right to speak in accordance
with the Code.
Councillor Michael Westbrook declared a personal interest in
respect of Item 12 a) on the agenda being that the Motion affects
his wife and therefore would not take part in the debate when that
item was reached.