Division 2 Disclosure of interests in written returns
449 Returns disclosing interests of councillors and designated persons
(1) A councillor or designated person must complete and lodge with the general manager, within 3 months after becoming a councillor or designated person, a return in the form prescribed by the regulations.(1A) A person must not lodge a return that the person knows or ought reasonably to know is false or misleading in a material particular.(2) A person need not lodge a return within the 3-month period after becoming a councillor or designated person if the person lodged a return in that year or the previous year or if the person ceases to be a councillor or designated person within the 3-month period.(3) A councillor or designated person holding that position at 30 June in any year must complete and lodge with the general manager within 3 months after that date a return in the form prescribed by the regulations.(4) A person need not lodge a return within the 3-month period after 30 June in a year if the person lodged a return under subsection (1) within 3 months of 30 June in that year.(5) Nothing in this section prevents a councillor or designated person from lodging more than one return in any year.(6) Nothing in this section or the regulations requires a person to disclose in a return lodged under this section an interest of the person’s spouse or de facto partner or a relative of the person.
450A Register and tabling of returns
(1) The general manager must keep a register of returns required to be lodged with the general manager under section 449.(2) Returns required to be lodged with the general manager under section 449 must be tabled at a meeting of the council, being:(a) in the case of a return lodged in accordance with section 449 (1)—the first meeting held after the last day for lodgement under that subsection, or(b) in the case of a return lodged in accordance with section 449 (3)—the first meeting held after the last day for lodgement under that subsection, or(c) in the case of a return otherwise lodged with the general manager—the first meeting after lodgement.