Committee on Standards in Public Life: Standards of conduct of local government in England, Scotla…
R3-12
Published July 1997
Response position and delivery status are recorded separately. Acceptance does not establish implementation.
Recommendation (the Committee's words)
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.
From: Committee on Standards in Public Life, Standards of conduct of local government in England, Scotland and Wales, July 1997