I'm not sure that I have enough of a grasp of the details of the particular case to know whether that's an act of avoidance. All legislation requires interpretation, that much is clear, so there's no amount of written.... A classic problem with the relationship between ethics and law is that laws can never be complete enough to outline all the things that might be forbidden, which is in part, of course, why we have the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner and an ethics committee.
On August 10th, 2020. See this statement in context.