Part 3 Use of office

1.   The actions of a councillor must not bring the council or the office of councillor into disrepute.

2.   A councillor must not take advantage, nor seek to take advantage, of the councillor’s office or status to influence others improperly to gain an undue, improper, unauthorised or unfair benefit, or detriment, for the councillor, another person or a body.

3.   A councillor, in the councillor’s personal dealings with the council (for example as a ratepayer, recipient of a council service or planning applicant), must not expect or request, expressly or implicitly, preferential treatment for the councillor, another person or a body.