Constitution Part 5 - Code of conduct for elected members and co-opted members

Any employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on for profit or gain.

Any payment or provision of any other financial benefit (other than from the council) made to the councillor during the previous 12-month period for expenses incurred by him/her in carrying out his/her duties as a councillor, or towards his/her election expenses.

This includes any payment or financial benefit from a trade union within the meaning of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.

Any contract made between the councillor or his/her spouse or civil partner or the person with whom the

councillor is living as if they were spouses/civil partners (or a firm in which such person is a partner, or an incorporated body of which such person is a director* or a body that such person has a beneficial interest in the securities of*) and the council

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1. under which goods or services are to be provided or works are to be executed; and which has not been fully discharged.

Any beneficial interest in land which is within the area of the council.

‘Land’ excludes an easement, servitude, interest or right in or over land which does not give the councillor or his/her spouse or civil partner or the person with whom the councillor is living as if they were spouses/ civil partners (alone or jointly with another) a right to occupy or to receive income.

Any licence (alone or jointly with others) to occupy land in the area of the council for a month or longer

Any tenancy where (to the councillor’s knowledge) —

1. the landlord is the council; and
2. the tenant is a body that the councillor, or his/her spouse or civil partner or the person with whom the councillor is living as if they were spouses/ civil partners is a partner of or a director* of or has a beneficial interest in the securities* of.

Any beneficial interest in securities* of a body where —

1. that body (to the councillor’s knowledge) has a place of business or land in the area of the council; and
2. either—

1. ) the total nominal value of the securities* exceeds £25,000 or one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that body; or
2. if the share capital of that body is of more than one class, the  total  nominal value of the shares of any one class in which the councillor, or his/ her spouse or

civil partner or the person with whom the councillor is living as if they were spouses/civil partners have a beneficial

interest exceeds one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that class.