Agenda and minutes

The Democratic Services Officer drew attention to the emergency evacuation procedure set out on the agenda.

RESOLVED that no Vice-Chair be required for the meeting.

Apologies were received from Councillor Bryan Chalker - Councillor Martin Veal was his substitute, Councillor Anthony Clarke – Councillor Patrick Anketell-Jones was his substitute, Councillor Douglas Nicol – Councillor Katie Hall was his substitute.  Apologies were also received from Councillor June Player.

At this point in the meeting declarations of interest are received from Members in any of the agenda items under consideration at the meeting. Members are asked to indicate:

(a) The agenda item number in which they have an interest to declare.

(b) The nature of their interest.

(c) Whether their interest is a disclosable pecuniary interest or an other interest,  (as defined in Part 2, A and B of the Code of Conduct and Rules for Registration of Interests)

Any Member who needs to clarify any matters relating to the declaration of interests is recommended to seek advice from the Council’s Monitoring Officer before the meeting to expedite dealing with the item during the meeting.

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RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting held on 7^th August 2012 be confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Chair(person).

The Committee considered the report which gave details of the responses received to the consultation exercise on the Review of the Council’s Statement of Principles under the Gambling Act 2005.  The report then sought determination of the officer recommendations before the report is presented to Full Council for adoption.

The Chair invited Members to look at Annex A, the responses to the 2012 consultation.  Members accepted the officer response to each consultee.

It was noted that a signature was included with the annex and the officer confirmed that this would be removed from the public website.

Councillor Tim Warren moved the officer recommendations at 2.1 and 2.2, Councillor Dine Romero seconded the proposal.

In relation to paragraph 16.2 of the draft Statement of Principles, Councillor Warren asked that ‘…working at bingo and casino premises…’ be deleted, this was agreed.  Councillor Gerry Curran suggested that this be replaced with ‘…working at licensed premises…’.  This was accepted by the mover and seconder.

RESOLVED (unanimously) that

(1)  The responses to  the consultation exercise be noted and it be agreed that the officer recommendations be incorporated into the revised Statement of Principles; and

(2)  The draft Statement of Principles, provided in Annex B and amended in paragraph 16.2, be presented to Council for adoption.