{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-of-cathedrals-rules-2006/article-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-of-cathedrals-rules-2006/article-25.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1941",
  "legislation_title": "The Care of Cathedrals Rules 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-of-cathedrals-rules-2006",
  "path": "article/25",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Declaration of personal interest",
  "text": "(1) At any meeting of the Commission or a fabric advisory committee, a member who has a personal interest in any item to be discussed at that meeting shall—\n(a) declare it no later than immediately before the item is to be discussed, and\n(b) withdraw from the meeting for the whole of the discussion and vote (if any)\nsave that where the chair of the meeting is satisfied that it would assist the members present to be informed as to some matters of fact, the chair may permit the member with a personal interest to remain at the meeting at the commencement of the discussion on the item in order to provide factual information and thereafter that member shall withdraw from the meeting.\n(2) If at any meeting of the Commission or a fabric advisory committee the chair or vice-chair of the Commission or the chair of the fabric advisory committee has a personal interest in any item to be discussed at that meeting then the chair or vice-chair, as the case may be, shall—\n(a) declare it no later than immediately before the item is to be discussed,\n(b) withdraw from the meeting for the whole of the discussion and vote (if any), and\n(c) whichever of the chair or vice-chair of the Commission has no personal interest in the item shall chair the meeting for that item, and in the case of the fabric advisory committee a member elected by the fabric advisory committee shall act as chair of the meeting for that item, and\n(d) if the person chairing the meeting under paragraph (c) is satisfied that it would assist members present to be informed as to some matters of fact, the chair of the meeting may permit the chair or vice-chair of the Commission or the chair of the fabric advisory committee, as the case may be, with a personal interest to remain at the meeting at the commencement of the discussion on the item in order to provide factual information and thereafter the chair or vice-chair or chair of the fabric advisory committee, as the case may be, shall withdraw from the meeting.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1941/article/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:25:18.088939+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}