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Financial Sector Regulation Act, 2017 (Act No. 9 of 2017)

Chapter 12A : Resolution of Designated Institutions

Part 6 : Corporation for Deposit Insurance - establishment, functions and governance

166AQ. Disclosure of interests

 

(1) A director of the Board must disclose, at a meeting of the Board, or in writing to each of the other directors, any interest in any matter that is being or may be considered by the Board that—
(a) the director has; or
(b) a person who is a related party to the director has.

 

(2) A disclosure referred to in subsection (1) must be made as soon as practicable after the director of the Board becomes aware of the interest.

 

(3) A director of the Board who has, or who has a related party who has, an interest that is required to be disclosed in terms of subsection (1), may not participate in the consideration of, or decision on, a matter to which the interest relates unless—
(a) the director has disclosed the interest as required by subsection (1); and
(b) the other directors have decided that the interest does not affect the proper execution of that director’s functions in relation to the matter.

 

(4) Subsections (1) to (3) apply, with the necessary changes required by the context, to members of committees established in terms of section 166AO.

 

(5)

(a) Each member of the Corporation’s staff and each person to whom a power or function of the Corporation has been delegated must make timely, proper and adequate disclosure of his or her interests, including the interests of a related party, that could reasonably be seen as interests that may affect the proper execution of his or her functions of office or the delegated power.
(b) The Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation must ensure that paragraph (a) is complied with.

 

(6) For the purposes of this section, it does not matter—
(a) whether an interest is direct, indirect, pecuniary or non-pecuniary; or
(b) when the interest was acquired.

 

(7) For the purposes of this section, a person does not have to disclose—
(a) the fact that that person, or a person who is a related party to that person, is—
(i) an official or employee of the Reserve Bank; or
(ii) a financial customer of a financial institution; or
(b) an interest that is not material.

 

(8) The Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation must maintain a register of all disclosures made in terms of this section and of all decisions made in terms of this section.

 

[Section 166AQ inserted by section 51 of the Financial Sector Laws Amendment Act, 2021 (Act No. 23 of 2021), Notice No. 789, GG45825, dated 28 January 2022- effective 24 March 2023 per (a) of Commencement Notice No. 3202, GG48294, dated 24 March 2023]