Appendix A - Disclosable pecuniary interests

The interests set out below are “Disclosable Pecuniary Interests” in accordance with the Localism Act 2011 and Members must notify the Monitoring Officer in accordance with Paragraphs 8(1)-(3) of this Code of Conduct of any interest which is an interest of the Member (M) or of any of the following:

• the Member’s spouse or civil partner;
• a person with whom the Member is living as husband and wife; or
• a person with whom the Member is living as if they were civil partners;

and the Member is aware that that other person has the interest.

Subject                                            Disclosable Pecuniary Interest

• Employment, Office, Trade - Any employment, office, trade, profession or Profession or Vocation  vocation carried out for profit or gain.
• Sponsorship - Any payment or provision of any other financial benefit (other than from the relevant authority) made or provided within the relevant period in respect of any expenses incurred by M in carrying out duties as a member, or towards the election expenses of M. This includes any payment or financial benefit from a Trade Union within the meaning of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992(a).
• Contracts - Any contract which is made between the relevant person (or a body in which the relevant person has a beneficial interest) and the relevant authority –

(a) under which goods or services are to be provided or works are to be executed; and
(b) which has not been fully discharged.

• Land - Any beneficial interest in land which is within the area of the relevant authority.
• Licences - Any licence (alone or 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) that body (to M’s knowledge) has a place of business or land 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.

(a)   “the Act” means the Localism Act 2011;
(b)   “body in which the relevant person has a beneficial interest” means a firm in which the relevant person is a partner or a body corporate of which the relevant person is a director, or in the securities of which the relevant person has a beneficial interest;
(c)   “director” includes a member of the committee of management of an industrial and provident society;
(d)   “land” excludes an easement, servitude, interest or right in or over 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;
(e)   “M” means a member of a relevant authority;
(f)    “member” includes a co-opted member;
(g)   “relevant authority” means the authority of which M is a member;
(h)   “relevant period” means the period of 12 months ending with the day on which M gives a notification for the purposes of section 30(1) or section 31(7), as the case may be, of the Act;

(i)    “relevant person” means M or any other person referred to in section 30(3)(b) of the Act;
(j)      “securities” means shares, debentures, debenture stock, loan stock, bonds, units of a collective investment scheme within the meaning of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000(b) and other securities of any description, other than money deposited with a building society.