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1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A conflict of interest may arise where an elected member of the Management Committee and\/or the National Executive Committee (MC\/NEC) of the Alliance for Change (hereinafter referred to as \u201can AFC leader\u201d) has a private material interest that can be affected by the outcome of deliberations in which this leader is participating.<\/span><\/p>\n 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An AFC leader who is a member of the National Assembly, Regional Democratic Council or Neighbourhood Democratic Council shall additionally be guided by and subjected to rules on conflict of interest in his\/her respective body.<\/span><\/p>\n 3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An AFC leader is at liberty to offer unlimited professional services in pursuit of his\/her constitutional right to work and shall not be required to violate confidentiality with legitimate clients.<\/span><\/p>\n 4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An AFC leader has a duty to disclose before the decision-making body of which he\/she is a member any private material interests in matters being deliberated by either or both of these bodies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It shall be an agenda requirement of MC\/NEC meetings for an AFC leader to voluntarily make periodic disclosure(s) of a private material interest in any matter being deliberated.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>6. Either of these decision-making bodies shall determine, in the absence of the AFC leader in question, whether the nature of the disclosure constitutes a conflict of interest situation over a matter being discussed.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Where it is determined that a conflict of interest exists, the member in question shall recuse him\/herself and not participate in deliberations on the particular matter in which he\/she has disclosed a material interest.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n 8. The leadership body may invite an AFC leader who has made disclosure of a material interest to offer technical or specialized opinions on a matter being deliberated, but that leader shall not exercise a vote or otherwise decide on the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n 9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Public disclosure by the Party of any private material interest of an AFC leader shall be decided on a case by case basis, after due consideration of confidentiality or third-party interest, and shall be made only with the consent of the said leader<\/span><\/p>\n 10.\u00a0 An AFC leader who knowingly withholds or fails to make timely disclosure of a private material interest in a matter being deliberated before a decision-making body of which he\/she is a member, shall be subject to disciplinary processes under party rules.<\/span><\/p>\n These draft Guidelines on Disclosures were adopted by the AFC NEC meeting on 31 August, 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n END<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A conflict of interest may arise where an elected member of the Management Committee and\/or the National Executive Committee (MC\/NEC) of the Alliance for Change (hereinafter referred to as \u201can AFC leader\u201d) has a private material interest that can be affected by the outcome of deliberations in which this leader is participating. 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pressreleases"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image001-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4F7T1-1f1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4776,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions\/4776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}