New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 459

459 Disclosure of pecuniary interests when dealing with council matters

(1) A designated person must disclose in writing to the general manager (or if the person is the general manager, to the council) the nature of any pecuniary interest the person has in any council matter with which the person is dealing.

(1A) However, subsection (1) does not require a designated person who is a member of staff of the council to disclose such a pecuniary interest if the interest relates only to the person’s salary as such a member of staff or to his or her other conditions of employment or the like.

(2) The general manager must, on receiving a disclosure from a designated person, deal with the matter to which the disclosure relates or refer it to another person to deal with.

(3) A disclosure by the general manager must, as soon as practicable after the disclosure is made, be laid on the table at a meeting of the council and the council must deal with the matter to which the disclosure relates or refer it to another person to deal with.