Cap. 363 ст. 20Relatives of councillors.

(1) Every councillor shall disclose to the Council in writing any relevant family relationship known to him to exist between himself and any person who he knows either holds, or is a candidate for appointment to, any office under the Council.

(2) All disclosures made under sub-article (1) shall as soon as practicable be brought by the Executive Secretary to the notice of the Council and:

(a) it shall be the duty of the Council to record in its minutes particulars of the disclosure; and

(b) if the councillor required to make the disclosure is present at any meeting of the Council at which any question relating to or affecting the appointment, remuneration, tenure or conditions of service, promotion, status, conduct, dismissal, suspension, retirement or superannuation of the person to whom he stands in a relevant family relationship is under consideration, he shall withdraw from that meeting while that question is being considered and his withdrawal shall be duly recorded in the minutes of the proceedings of that meeting.

(3) Any councillor who acts in contravention of sub-article (1) or sub-article (2)(b) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine (multa) not exceeding seven hundred euro (€700) and, moreover, any person found guilty of such an offence shall be liable to be disqualified from holding office of councillor for a period of five years from such conviction: Provided that the Minister may, from time to time, by notice in the Gazette specify higher penalties which in no case shall exceed a fine (multa) of seven thousand euro (€7,000).

(4) For the purposes of this article, a relevant family relationship shall be deemed to exist between a councillor and an officer or candidate if they are married, partners in a civil union or if the officer or candidate, or the husband or wife of the officer or the candidate, are the -

(a) parents;

(b) grandparents;

(c) grandson or granddaughter;

(d) son or daughter;

(e) siblings;

(f) uncle or aunt;

(g) nephew or niece; or

(h) first cousin, of the councillor or of the husband or wife, partner in a civil union of the councillors.