Government Business Enterprises Act 1995
3BMaterial personal interest
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3B Material personal interest
[Section 3B Inserted by No. 42 of 2002, s. 5, Applied:27 Nov 2002]
(1) In this Act,
material personal interest, in respect of a director of a Government Business Enterprise, includes –
(a) a direct or indirect interest; and
(b) a pecuniary or non-pecuniary interest; and
(c) the interest of a relative of the director; and
(d) the interest of an associated entity; and
(e) an interest in a corporation, within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth; and
(f) the director's employment by a person with a direct or indirect interest in that Government Business Enterprise of which the director is a director; and
(g) the holding by the director of an office where there arises or may arise a conflict between his or her duties in that office and his or her duties as director of that Government Business Enterprise; and
(h) the holding by the director of the office of member in another statutory authority or in the governing authority of another statutory authority; and
(i) any other interest that does, or may, give rise to a conflict of interest.
(2) A director of a Government Business Enterprise does not have a material personal interest by reason only of the director also being a State Service employee or State Service officer.
(3) A director of a Government Business Enterprise does not have a material personal interest by reason only of an interest in a contract with the Government Business Enterprise for a good or service ordinarily supplied by the Government Business Enterprise and supplied on the same terms as that good or service is ordinarily supplied to other persons in the same situation.