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9.—(1) Within 3 months of this Act coming into effect the Department of Finance must establish, maintain and make available for public inspection a register of interests in respect of Ministers and special advisers for the purpose of recording all such interests as are prescribed in a scheme defining the categories of financial and other interests that are registrable, including gifts and hospitality.
(2) The Minister of Finance must lay the scheme and any revisions thereof before the Assembly as soon as possible after compilation.
(3) All Ministers and special advisers must—
(a)within 28 days of taking up their post inform the Permanent Secretary of the Department of Finance of their registrable interests, including those of their spouse, partner or close family members; and
(b)within 28 days of any change to those registrable interests, inform the Permanent Secretary of that change.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (3)(a), two people are partners if—
(a)they are civil partners of each other, or
(b)they are not married to, or civil partners of, each other but are living together as if spouses of each other.
(5) For the purposes of subsection (3)(a) “close family member”, in relation to a person, means someone who is—
(a)a parent, or parent-in-law, of the person,
(b)a child of the person,
(c)a whole-blood sibling of the person, or
(d)the spouse or civil partner of someone within paragraph (b) or (c).
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