The document below outlines that the Register of Interests of our Parish Council members should be sent to the Monitoring Officer within 28 days of their election and published on the Parish Council website.
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How will there be openness and transparency about my personal interests?
The national rules require your council or authority to adopt a code of conduct for its members and to have a register of members’ interests. The national rules require your council’s code of conduct to comply with the Seven Principles of Public Life, and to set out how, in conformity with the rules, you will have to disclose and register your pecuniary and your other interests. Within these rules it is for your council to decide what its code of conduct says.
When you are first elected, co-opted, or appointed a member to your council or authority, you must, within 28 days of becoming a member, tell the monitoring officer who is responsible for your council’s or authority’s register of members’ interests about your disclosable pecuniary interests. If you are re-elected, re-co-opted, or reappointed a member, you need to tell the monitoring officer about only those disclosable pecuniary interests that are not already recorded in the register.
Who can see the register of members’ interests?
Except for parish councils, a council’s or authority’s register of members’ interests must be available for inspection in the local area, and must be published on the council’s or authority’s website.
For parish councils, the monitoring officer who is responsible for the council’s register of members’ interests must arrange for the parish council’s register of members’ interests to be available for inspection in the district of borough, and must be published on the district or borough council’s website. Where the parish council has its own website, its register of members’ interests must also be published on that website.
This is in line with the Government’s policies of transparency and accountability, ensuring that the public have ready access to publicly available information.
