{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-members-interests-order-1999/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-members-interests-order-1999/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1350",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Members' Interests) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-members-interests-order-1999",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Registration of registrable interests",
  "text": "(1) The Schedule sets out the circumstances in which a member has a registrable interest.\n(2) Each member shall, not later than the relevant date mentioned in paragraph (8), lodge with the Clerk a written statement–\n(a) giving details of any registrable interest falling within any of the following categories–\n(i) any registrable interest which he had at the date on which he was returned as a member;\n(ii) any registrable interest which he has had at any time since that date;\n(iii) any registrable interest which he has at the date on which he lodges the statement with the Clerk; or\n(b) declaring that–\n(i) he had no registrable interest on the date on which he was returned as a member;\n(ii) he has had no registrable interest at any time since that date; and\n(iii) he has no registrable interest at the date on which he lodges the statement with the Clerk.\n(3) A statement lodged under paragraph (2)(a) shall be in such form as may be specified by the Presiding Officer and shall contain–\n(a) such details of any registrable interest and such other information as, in the opinion of the Presiding Officer, are necessary to identify clearly the nature of the interest and, where relevant, its source;\n(b) details of the monetary value of the interest;\n(c) where the registrable interest falls within paragraph 2 or 3 of the Schedule, such details as the Presiding Officer may determine of any clients to whom the member provides services in his capacity as a member where those clients are–\n(i) clients of an undertaking of which he is a director as mentioned in paragraph 2 or 3 of the Schedule; or\n(ii) clients of the member (in any capacity) or any employer or firm as mentioned in paragraph 2 of the Schedule;\n(d) where–\n(i) the registrable interest falls within paragraph 6 of the Schedule; and\n(ii) any gift is received by the member, his spouse or cohabitee, or a company or partnership as mentioned in that paragraph, from any other person whose principal residence or place of business, as the case may be, is outside the United Kingdom,\nsuch details as the Presiding Officer may determine of that person and principal residence or place of business; and\n(e) such other information as the member wishes to disclose.\n(4) A member who has an interest which may be relevant to the proceedings of the Parliament but which is not a registrable interest may at any time lodge with the Clerk a written statement giving details of the interest including the date on which he acquired the interest.\n(5) If, after lodging a statement under paragraph (2)(a) or (b), a member becomes aware that he has a registrable interest in respect of which he has not lodged a statement under paragraph (2)(a), he shall forthwith lodge a statement under paragraph (2)(a) in respect of that interest.\n(6) If, after lodging a statement under–\n(a) paragraph (2)(a), a member acquires an additional registrable interest; or\n(b) paragraph (2)(b), a member acquires a registrable interest,\nthe member shall, not later than 30 days after the date on which he acquired that interest, lodge a statement under paragraph (2)(a) in respect of that interest and shall also give notice of that date.\n(7) If, after lodging a statement under paragraph (2)(a) or (4), a member ceases to have an interest detailed in that statement he may lodge with the Clerk a written statement–\n(a) identifying the interest in question; and\n(b) giving the date on which he ceased to have that interest.\n(8) The relevant date for the purposes of paragraph (2) is–\n(a) in any case where a member has taken the oath of allegiance or made his solemn affirmation before the date of the coming into force of this Order, the date which is 15 days after that date;\n(b) in any other case, the date which is 30 days after the date on which he has taken his oath of allegiance or made his solemn affirmation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1350/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:48:25.187868+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."
}