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Section 8 of the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009

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AuthorMichael Smyth/Patricia Barratt/Fraser Campbell
Pages317-318

Appendix 7


Section 8 of the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009 (repealed by section 32 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010)

MPs’ code of conduct relating to financial interests

(1) The IPSA must prepare a code to be observed by members of the House of Commons, the content of which is provision made by virtue of subsections
(7) and (8).
(2) In this Act ‘the MPs’ code of conduct relating to financial interests’ means the code prepared under this section as it is in effect for the time being.

(3) The IPSA must review the code regularly and revise it as appropriate.
(4) In preparing or revising the code, the IPSA must consult—

(a) the Speaker of the House of Commons,
(b) the Leader of the House of Commons,
(c) the House of Commons Committee on Standards and Privileges,
(d) members of the House of Commons, and
(e) any other person the IPSA considers appropriate.

(5) The Speaker must lay the code (or revision) before the House of Commons.
(6) The code (or revision) does not come into effect until it is approved by a resolution of the House of Commons.

(7) The code must require members to register specified information about specified financial interests in a register maintained by the IPSA.

(8) The code must prohibit a member from—

(a) by any specified...

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