The Public Health Wales National Health Service Trust (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 2009

Disability of directors in proceedings on account of pecuniary interest

24.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, if a director of the Trust has any pecuniary interest, direct or indirect, in any contract, proposed contract or other matter and is present at a meeting of the Trust at which the contract or other matter is the subject of consideration, that director must at the meeting and as soon as practicable after its commencement disclose the fact and must not take part in the consideration and discussion of the contract or other matter or vote on any question with respect to it.

(2) The Welsh Ministers may, subject to such conditions as they may think fit to impose, remove any disability imposed by this regulation, in any case in which it appears to them in the interests of the health service that the disability should be removed.

(3) The Trust may, by standing orders made under regulation 23 provide for the exclusion of a director from a meeting of the trust while any contract, proposed contract, or other matter in which he or she has a pecuniary interest, direct or indirect, is under consideration.

(4) Any remuneration, compensation or allowances payable to a director by virtue of paragraph 11 of Schedule 3 to the Act may not be treated as a pecuniary interest for the purpose of this regulation.

(5) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (6), a director must be treated for the purposes of this regulation as having indirectly a pecuniary interest in a contract, proposed contract or other matter if—

(a)that director, or a nominee of his or hers, is a director of a company or other body, not being a public body, with which the contract was made or is proposed to be made or which has a direct pecuniary interest in the other matter under consideration; or

(b)that director is a partner of, or is in the employment of, a person with whom the contract was made or is proposed to be made or who has a direct pecuniary interest in the other matter under consideration and, in the case of married persons or civil partners, the interest of one spouse or civil partner is deemed for the purpose of this regulation to be also an interest of the other.

(6) A director will not be treated as having a pecuniary interest in any contract, proposed contract or other matter by reason only—

(a)that director’s membership of a company or other body if he or she has no beneficial interest in any securities of that company or other body;

(b)of an interest in any company, body or person with which he or she is connected as mentioned in paragraph (5) which is so remote or insignificant that it cannot reasonably be regarded as likely to influence a director in the consideration or discussion of or in voting on, any question with respect to that contract or matter.

(7) Where a director—

(a)has an indirect pecuniary interest in a contract or other matter by reason only of a beneficial interest in securities of a company or other body; and

(b)the total nominal value of those securities does not exceed £5,000 or one hundredth of the total nominal value of the issued share capital of the company or body, whichever is the less; and

(c)if the share capital is of more than one class, the total nominal value of shares of any one class in which he or she has the beneficial interest does not exceed one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that class,

this regulation will not prohibit that director from taking part in consideration or discussion of the contract or other matter or from voting on any question in respect to it without prejudice however to his or her duty to disclose his or her interest.

(8) This regulation applies to a committee or sub-committee of the Trust as it applies to the Trust and applies to any member of any such committee or sub-committee (whether or not that person is also a director of the trust) as it applies to a director of the Trust.