CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947 — Page 41

PART V

Members of the Council not to be appointed as officers.

s.122

Disclosure by officers of interest in contracts.

8.123

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office during the pleasure of the Council shall not

affect any right or obligation of the officer to retire

on attaining any specified age or on the happening of

any specified event in pursuance of any enactment relating

to pensions or any enactment or scheme relating to

superannuation allowances which is applicable to the

officer.

644 A person shall, so long as he is, and for

twelve months after he ceases to be, a member of the

Council, be disqualified for being appointed by the Council

to any paid office, other than to the office of Chairman

of the Council.

65.- (1) If it comes to the knowledge of an officer

employed, whether under this Ordinance or any other

enactment, by the Council that any contract in which he

has any pecuniary interest, whether direct or indirect (not

being a contrast to which he is himself a party), has

been, or is proposed to be, entered into by the Council

or any committee thereof, he shall as soon as practicable,

give notice in writing to the Council of the fact that he

is interested therein.

For the purposes of this section an officer shall be

treated as having indirectly a pecuniary interest in a

contract or proposed contract if he would have been so

treated by virtue of sub-section (2) or sub-section (3) af

section 39 of this Ordinance, had he been a member of the

Council.

(2) An officer of the Council shall not, under cover

of his affice or employment, exact or accept any fee or

reward whatsoever other than his proper remuneration.

(3) If any person fails to comply with the provisions

of sub-section (1) or contravenes any of the provisions of

sub-section (2) of this section he shall, for each offence,

be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding

one thousand dollars.

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