Witham on Hill Parish Council (Disclosable Pecuniary Interests) Regulatins 2012

Witham On Hill Parish Council (Disclosable Pecuniary Interests) Regulations 2012

I ______Debra L McMillan______(full name in block capitals)

a Member of Witham on the Hill Parish Council(the Council), give notice of registration of my disclosable pecuniary interests, and those of my spouse /civil partner, which I am required to declare under the Relevant Authorities (Disclosable Pecuniary Interests) Regulations 2012, and in accordance with the Member’s Code of Conduct adopted by the Council.

Notes:

1. This form must be returned within 28 days of the adoption of the Code of Conduct or within 28 days of your election or appointment to office. You must register your Disclosable Pecuniary Interests in the Register maintained under Sections 30(3) and 235(2) of the Localism Act 2011 and provide written notification of details to the Council’s Monitoring Officer.

1. What is a ‘pecuniary disclosable interest – pecuniary(of or involving money, involving a money penalty or fine) interest is a “disclosable pecuniary interest” in relation to a Member (“M”) if it is of a description specified in the Schedule to these Regulations and either—

(a)it is an interest of M’s, or

(b)it is an interest of—

(i)M’s spouse or civil partner,

(ii)a person with whom M is living as husband and wife, or

(iii)a person with whom M is living as if they were civil partners,

And M is aware that that other person has the interest.

Each category of person referred to above are described as the ‘relevant person’.

1. You must within 28 days of becoming aware of any change to the interests specified above provide written notification to the Monitoring Officer of that change.

SCHEDULE

Employment, office, trade, profession or vocation – This includes any employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on for profit or gain.

Sponsorship - any payment or provision of any financial benefit (other than payments made to the Member by the Authority) made or provided within the period of twelve months ending on the day the Member notifies the monitoring officer in respect of any expenses incurred by the Member in carrying out duties as a member, or towards the election expenses of the Member. This includes any payment or financial benefit from a trade union.

Contracts – any contract which is made between the relevant person (or a body in which they may have a beneficial interest) and the authority –

(a) under which goods or services are to be provided or works are to be carried out; and

(b) which has not been fully discharged.

Land – any beneficial interest in land which is within the area of the authority. ‘Land’ excludes an easement, servitude, interest or right in land which does not carry with it a right for the relevant person (alone or jointly with another) to occupy the land or to receive income.

Licences – Any licence (alone of jointly with others) to occupy land in the area of the relevant authority for a month or longer.

Corporate tenancies – Any tenancy where (to M’s knowledge) –

(a)the landlord is the relevant authority; and

(b)The tenant is a body in which the relevant person has a beneficial interest.

Securities– any beneficial interest in securities of a body where –

(a)the body (to M’s Knowledge) has a place of business in the area of the relevant authority; and

(b)either –

(i)the total nominal value of the securities exceeds £25,000 or one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that body; or

(ii)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 relevant person has a beneficial interest exceeds one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that class.

‘Body’ in which the relevant person has a beneficial interest means a firm in which the relevant person is a partner or body corporate of which the relevant person is a director, or in the securities of which (i.e. shares, debentures. Debenture stock, loan stock, bonds, units or collective investment scheme) the relevant person has a beneficial interest