The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Membership, Committee and Procedure) Regulations 2005

Members' interests

19.—(1) A member who is in any way directly or indirectly interested in any matter that is brought up for consideration at a meeting of the Service must disclose the nature of his interest to the meeting.

(2) If such a disclosure is made—

(a) the disclosure must be recorded in the minutes of the meeting, and

(b) the member must not take part in any deliberation or decision of the Service with respect to that matter or preside during any part of a meeting at which that matter is discussed.

(3) If a member is not present at a meeting at which a matter in which he is interested is brought up for consideration, paragraph (1) only applies to him if he was aware that the matter would be brought up for consideration at the meeting.

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a general notification given at a meeting by a member to the effect that he—

(a) has an interest in a specified company, firm or other organisation, and

(b) is to be regarded as interested in any matter involving that company, firm or other organisation,

shall be regarded as sufficient disclosure of his interest in relation to any such matter.

(5) A member need not attend in person at a meeting in order to make a disclosure which he is required to make under this regulation if he takes reasonable steps to secure that the disclosure is made by a notice in writing to the Service which is read and considered at the meeting.