Western Australian Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1986 - SECT 12

12 .         Disclosure of interests by Authority members

        (1)         An Authority member who has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest in a matter that is before a meeting of the Authority shall, as soon as possible after the relevant facts have come to his knowledge, disclose the nature of his interest to Authority members who are at that meeting, and that disclosure shall be recorded in the minutes of the proceedings of that meeting.

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        (3)         If an Authority member has, in the opinion of the person presiding at a meeting of the Authority, a direct or indirect pecuniary interest in a matter before that meeting, the person so presiding may call on the Authority member to disclose the nature of that interest and, in default of any such disclosure, may determine that the Authority member has that interest.

        (4)         A determination under subsection (3) that an Authority member is interested in a matter shall be recorded in the minutes of the proceedings of the meeting concerned.

        (5)         If an Authority member discloses an interest in a matter under subsection (1) or is determined under subsection (3) to have an interest in a matter, the Authority member shall not —

            (a)         take part, as an Authority member, in the consideration or discussion of the matter; or

            (b)         vote on the matter.

        [Section 12 amended by No. 54 of 2003 s. 124.]