Elected member interests
Each agenda for a meeting of the full Council, the Council’s Committees or SubCommittees contains a specific item requiring declaration of Elected Members’ interests in items contained within the agenda at the outset of the meeting before the principal business is conducted.
Where an Elected Member has a Registerable (disclosable pecuniary interest) or Non-Registerable personal (prejudicial) interest as defined in the Code of Conduct for Elected Members, it must be declared either at the start of the meeting or as soon as it becomes apparent. The Elected Member must then leave the meeting room during the whole of the consideration of that item, except where the Member is permitted to remain in the meeting room as a result of the prior grant of a dispensation under section 33 of the Localism Act 2011 or an exemption applies (see paragraph 6.4 of the Code of Conduct for Elected Members).