Page 3052 - Week 10 - Thursday, 15 September 1994
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Mr Wood - the answer to the Members question is as follows:
(1) The officer who prepared the minute paper was not a member of the Ridgeway
Residents Association and has never had a property adjacent to the Ridgeway
Estate.
(2) The situation did not arise as the officer who prepared the minute was never in
a position that could conflict, or appear to conflict, with the proper
performance of his duties.
(3) The officer was never a member of the Ridgeway Residents Association.
(4) A former officer of the Office of the Environment was the Pollution Control
Authority as well as a resident of the Ridgeway. This officer made a formal
declaration to the Secretary of the Department of the Environment, Land and
Planning of the possibility of a conflict of interest in the sense that she lived in
the general area. This was known to senior officers and myself. The officer
was at all times mindful of the need to avoid conflict of interest in handling the
issue and acted at all times to ensure that any potential or perceived conflict of
interest was in fact avoided.
Action to control noise from motorsports was only taken in response to formal complaints from local residents, when the activities in question were found to be in breach of ACT legislation.
(5) The Governments procedures in relation to an appropriate declaration of
private interest is defined in The Public Sector Management Standards,
particularly Standard 4 ( Ethics), chapter 11.
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