Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A member of a weed advisory committee who has or has had a direct or indirect proprietary or other pecuniary interest in a matter being considered or about to be considered by the committee (other than an interest held in common with other land owners or users of land in the area) must, as soon as possible after the relevant facts have come to the member's knowledge, disclose the nature of his or her interest at a meeting of the committee.
(2) A disclosure under subsection (1) is to be recorded in the minutes of the meeting of the weed advisory committee and the member, in relation to the matter:
(a) is not, while he or she has that interest (otherwise than as a member of, and in common with the other members of, a corporation consisting of not less than 25 persons and of which he or she is not a director) to take part after the disclosure in any deliberation or decision of the committee; and
(b) is to be disregarded for the purpose of constituting a quorum at the meeting.