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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/code-of-conduct-magistrates-courts-committees-and-selection-panels-order-2000/schedule/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2148",
  "legislation_title": "The Code of Conduct (Magistrates' Courts Committees and Selection Panels) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/code-of-conduct-magistrates-courts-committees-and-selection-panels-order-2000",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Duty to disclose interests",
  "text": "(1) A member must disclose in writing to the justices' chief executive details of all—\n(a) relevant personal direct and indirect pecuniary interests;\n(b) relevant direct and indirect pecuniary interests of a member’s partner of which the member could reasonably be expected to be aware;\n(c) relevant personal non-pecuniary interests; and\n(d) relevant non-pecuniary interests of a member’s partner of which the member could reasonably be expected to be aware.\n(2) In sub-paragraph(1)—\n(a) references to a relevant interest, whether pecuniary or non-pecuniary, and whether direct or indirect, means any interest which may, or which may be perceived (by a reasonable member of the public) to, influence his judgment as a member; and\n(b) references to an indirect pecuniary interest means an interest which arises from connection with bodies which have a direct pecuniary interest or from being a business partner of, or employed by anyone with such an interest.\n(3) Subject to paragraph 11, a member must make the disclosure required by this paragraph—\n(a) within a period of one calendar month commencing with the date that he becomes a member;\n(b) if the interest is acquired after he becomes a member, within a period of one calendar month commencing with the date that the interest was acquired; and\n(c) if the interest becomes subject to the duty to disclose contained in this paragraph after it is acquired, as soon as reasonably practicable after it becomes subject to that duty.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2148/schedule/paragraph/3",
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  "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."
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