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CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA ACT 2013 - SECT 87
Disclosure of material personal interest by members of trust board--civil obligations
87 Disclosure of material personal interest by members of trust board--civil
obligations
(1) If-- (a) a member of a trust board has a direct or indirect material
personal interest in a matter being considered or about to be considered at a
meeting of the trust board, and
(b) the interest appears to raise a conflict
with the proper performance of the member's duties in relation to the
consideration of the matter,
the member must, as soon as possible after the
relevant facts have come to the member's knowledge, disclose the nature of the
interest at a meeting of the trust board. Maximum civil penalty: $5,500.
(2)
A disclosure by a member of a trust board at a meeting of the trust board that
the member-- (a) is a member, or is in the employment, of a specified company
or other body, or
(b) is a partner, or is in the employment, of a specified
person, or
(c) has some other specified interest relating to a specified
company or other body or to a specified person,
is a sufficient disclosure of
the nature of the interest in any matter relating to that company or other
body or to that person which may arise after the date of the disclosure and
which is required to be disclosed under this section.
(3) Particulars of any
disclosure made under this section must be recorded by the trust board in a
book kept for the purpose and that book must be open at all reasonable hours
to inspection by any person.
(4) After a member of a trust board has
disclosed the nature of an interest in any matter, the member must not, unless
the Minister or the trust board otherwise determines-- (a) be present during
any deliberation of the trust board with respect to the matter, or
(b) take
part in any decision of the trust board with respect to the matter.
Maximum
civil penalty: $5,500.
(5) For the purposes of the making of a determination
by the trust board under subsection (4), a member who has a direct or indirect
material personal interest in a matter to which the disclosure relates must
not-- (a) be present during any deliberation of the trust board for the
purpose of making the determination, or
(b) take part in the making by the
trust board of the determination.
(6) A contravention of this section does
not invalidate any decision of the trust board.
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