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R3-12

July 1997

Response position and delivery status are recorded separately. Acceptance does not establish implementation.

Recommendation

Unless they have a dispensation, councillors should withdraw from consideration of matters where they have an interest whose existence creates a real danger of bias, that is where they or their close family are likely to be affected more than the generality of those affected by the decision in question.

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