Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) If a Councillor has any pecuniary to Council- interest direct or indirect in any contract or employ- pecuniary^ m c n t o r other matter and is present in a meeting of interest in the Corporation or of a Committee at which the any con- c o n tract or other matter is the subject of consideration, wUhCorpo- he shall at the meeting as soon as practicable after the ration. commencement thereof, disclose the fact, and shall not take part in the consideration or discussion of, or vote on any question with respect to the contract or other m atter: Provided that this section shall not apply to an interest which a member may have as a rate-payer or inhabitant of the area or an ordinary consumer of gas, electricity or water, or to an interest in any matter relating to the terms on which the right to participate in any service including the supply of goods is offered to the public, 75 (2) For the purpose of this section a person shall be treated as having indirectly a pecuniary interest in a contract, employment or other matter, if he or any nominee of his is a member of any company or other body with which the contract is made or is proposed to be made or which has a direct pecuniary interest in the employment or other matter under consideration or if he is a partner or is in employment of a person with whom the contract is made or is proposed to be made or who has a direct pecuniary interest in the employment or other matter under consideration : Provided that— (i) this sub-seetion shall not apply to a membership of or employment under any public body; or (ii) a member of a company or other body shall not by reason only of his membership, ba treated as being so interested if he has no beneficial interest in any shares or stock of that company or other body. (3) In the case of married persons living together, the interest of one spouse shall be deemed for the purpose of this section to be also the interest of the other spouse. (4) A general notice given to the Mayor by a Councillor to the effect that he or his spouse is a member of a specified company or he or his spouse is a partner or in the employment of a specified person, shall unless and until the notice is withdrawn, be deemed to be a sufficient disclosure of his interest in any contract, proposed contract, employment or other matter relating to the company or other body or to that person which may be the subject of consideration after the date of the notice. (5) The Municipal Secretary shall record in a book to be kept for the purpose particulars of any disclosure made under sub-section (i 1) and of any notice given under sub-section (4) and the book shall remain open at all reasonable hours for the inspection of any Councillor. Meeting to I 8 3 , (1) Every meeting shall be open to the ordi aarily public, unless a majority of the Councillors present at epen to the meeting decide by a resolution that any Public. enquiry or deliberation pending before the Corpo ration shall be held in private. 76 (2) The Corporation may make rules for regulat ing the admission of the members of the public to its meetings and for the removal by force, if necessary, of any member of the public admitted to a meeting under such rules, for interrupting or disturbing the proceeding of the meeting.