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Conflicts of interest, gifts, and benefits

Declare an interest

Employees may be required to declare personal interests (including interests of their partners or dependants) that have a bearing, or may be perceived as having a bearing, on carrying out their role properly and impartially. See section 88 and 182 of the Public Sector Act 2022 (the Act).

Certain statutory office holders may also be required to declare interests under section 40E of the Integrity Act 2009 (the Integrity Act).

Heads of public sector entities who are not chief executives of departments or statutory office holders to whom the Integrity Act applies, should comply with relevant policy requirements as reflected in this web page.

  • Business partnerships
  • Organisational memberships (subject to any exclusions as set out below under 'What not to declare’ or included in the relevant form)
  • Shareholdings in public and private companies
  • Family and business trusts and nominee companies
  • Bonds, debentures and like investments Savings and investment accounts with banks, building societies and like organisations
  • Real estate including private residential property
  • Directorships in or employment by a public or private company or other business entity (e.g. sole trader)
  • If you, your partner or dependants are beneficiaries of a deceased estate, shareholdings, real estate and beneficial interests
  • Income received from employment with the Crown, if this income is not received in relation to the position for which this declaration is being made
  • Other substantial sources of income from employment (except as an employee of the Crown), business undertakings or investments
  • Other interests that may result in, or be seen to result in, a conflict of interest, including indirect pecuniary interests and contingent pecuniary interests
  • Other relevant assets
  • Liabilities including mortgages, hire purchase arrangements, personal loans and overdrafts in your name, your partner's name or your dependants’ names.

The Guide to declaring interests - chief executives of departments (PDF, 326 KB) provides additional information for directors-general and may be used as a best practice measure to inform chief executives of other public sector entities.

  • Ordinary non-interest-bearing cheque accounts
  • Credit card accounts
  • Credit accounts held with department stores
  • Personal use motor vehicles
  • Collections (e.g. stamp collections)
  • Household and personal effects
  • Trustee responsibilities you, your partner or dependants have as executor or trustee but not a beneficiary, of a deceased estate, shareholdings, real estate and beneficial interests
  • Memberships of industrial organisations.

Chief executives of departments

You must declare your interests:

  • within 1 month of starting your role
  • as soon as possible after a change in interests becomes known to the chief executive (a change to interests may also occur as a result of significant changes in the official responsibilities of the chief executive).

Complete the Declaration of interests form - chief executives (DOCX, 520.2 KB) .

Submit your declaration to the Public Sector Commissioner and your departmental minister.

Statutory office holders listed in schedule 1 of the Integrity Act (including those who are heads of public sector entities)

You must declare your interests:

  • within 1 month of starting your role
  • as soon as possible after a change in interests becomes known to the statutory office holder (a change to interests may also occur as a result of significant changes in the official responsibilities of the statutory office holder)
  • annually.

Complete the following:

Submit your declaration and any revised version to the relevant minister and/or parliamentary committee—see section 40D of the Integrity Act for a definition of relevant minister and section 40E of the Integrity Act for further detail on arrangements that apply to these statutory office holders.

Chief executives of public sector entities (other than chief executives of departments and statutory office holders listed in schedule 1 of the Integrity Act)

Interests must be declared:

  • within 1 month of starting your role
  • within 1 month of any significant change in the interest
  • within 1 month of any significant change in your official responsibilities
  • annually.

Complete the following:

Submit you declaration and any revisions to the minister administering the Act under which you were appointed and/or the relevant parliamentary committee—see the Declaration of Interests - Senior Executives and Equivalent Employees including Statutory Office Holders.

Senior executives and equivalent

Under Declaration of Interests – Public sector employees excluding chief executives (Directive 03/24), the following public sector officers/employees may be directed by their chief executive or a relevant delegate to provide a declaration of interests at any time:

  • senior executives (SES) officers
  • public service officers on a section 155 contract (of the Act) remunerated at the equivalent SES level or above (not including vehicle or incentive packages)
  • other public sector employees employed by public sector entities remunerated at the equivalent SES level or above (not including vehicle or incentive packages).

If you have been directed to declare or revise your interests, complete and submit the following:

You may be asked to provide a declaration of interests at any time. If you are asked to provide a declaration of interests annually and your interests have not changed since you last provided a declaration of interests, you may advise of this by completing an Annual review of declaration of interests: no variations form (DOCX, 518.5 KB) .

Arrangements that apply if you are not directed to declare or revise your interests

See Declaration of Interests policy – Senior Executive Service and Equivalent Employee including Statutory Office Holders.

If you are an SES employee or an equivalently remunerated public sector employee and are not directed to provide a declaration of interests or a revised declaration of interests, as a matter of policy you must declare your interests:

Forms should be submitted to your chief executive or the relevant delegate.

Public sector employees

You may be asked by your chief executive or a relevant delegate to declare or revise your interests—see Declaration of Interests – Public sector employees excluding chief executives (Directive 03/24).

If requested:

Forms should be submitted to your chief executive or the relevant delegate.

Speak to your supervisor or HR team if you require further information on making or revising a declaration of interests, or if you are unsure who the relevant delegate is.

If a conflict of interest exists, it must be appropriately managed.

See Conflicts of interest for more.

You can access declarations made by chief executives online—see our Declarations of Interest register.

For access to information declared in relation to these chief executives’ partners and dependants and public sector employees, and their partners and dependants, you need to request access under either the:

If you request access to someone else’s information, the employing agency will consult with the person who made the declaration before releasing it.

Information may be released if it is in the public interest to do so. However, it is unlikely that the release of information to an outside party would be in the public interest without supporting evidence. Examples of evidence indicating an employee may have engaged in misconduct or negligent, improper or unlawful conduct.

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Last updated:
1 March 2023