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Regel zu Interessenkonflikten und Vermögensoffenlegung

Ein öffentliches Interessenregister, eine Pflicht zum Rücktritt von der Mitwirkung, Geschenkbeschränkungen und ab 1.1. gestaffelte Vermögenserklärungen, Beschränkungen nach dem Ausscheiden aus dem Amt sowie eine unabhängige Integritätsbeauftragte oder ein unabhängiger Integritätsbeauftragter.

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1−# Conflict-of-interest rule
1+# Conflict-of-interest and asset-disclosure rule
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33 ## Purpose
3131 1. Any member may complain to the integrity officer about a suspected breach.
3232 2. A decision taken with the vote of an office-holder who should have stepped aside may be annulled by the body itself or on appeal, if that vote may have changed the outcome.
3333 3. Deliberate failure to declare is misconduct for the purposes of the recall and removal procedure.
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35+## Article 5. Asset declarations
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37+1. Office-holders in the schedule's higher category file, on taking office, each year, and on leaving office, a declaration of assets and liabilities by category and value band.
38+2. The integrity officer compares successive declarations and may ask an office-holder to explain a significant increase in wealth that is not accounted for by declared income.
39+3. Declarations are published in value bands; exact figures are held by the integrity officer only.
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41+## Article 6. After office
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43+1. For 12 months after leaving office a former office-holder may not lobby their former body or take paid work with a person to whom they awarded a contract or licence in the previous two years, without the integrity officer's written clearance.
44+2. Clearances and their conditions are published.
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46+## Article 7. Integrity officer
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48+1. The integrity officer is appointed by a two-thirds majority for a single term of six years and is removable only for misconduct.
49+2. The officer publishes an annual report giving numbers of declarations, late filings, advice given, complaints and outcomes.
50+3. Sanctions for breaches are graduated: a published reprimand; suspension of pay or allowances; and, for deliberate or repeated breaches, referral for removal.
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