New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS ACT 1983 - SECT 185

185 Duty of officers and staff to disclose pecuniary interests

(1) A person who is an officer or member of staff of an Aboriginal Land Council must disclose the nature of a pecuniary interest in a matter if--

(a) the Council is considering or discussing the matter, and

(b) the person is present at a meeting of the Council, or the Board of the Council, at which the matter is being considered or discussed.

(2) The person must make the disclosure to the meeting as soon as practicable.

(3) The disclosure must be recorded in the minutes of the meeting.

(4) Unless the Aboriginal Land Council decides otherwise, the person must not be present at, or in sight of, the meeting of the Aboriginal Land Council--

(a) when the matter is being considered or discussed by the Council, or

(b) when the Council is voting on a question in relation to the matter.

(5) A person does not breach this section if the person did not know and could not reasonably be expected to have known that the matter considered or discussed was a matter in which the person had a pecuniary interest.