Part 1 U.K.The Judiciary

[F1The OmbudsmanN.I.

Textual Amendments

F1S. 9A and preceding cross-heading inserted (25.9.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 124(2), 148; S.I. 2006/1537, art. 3(a)

[F29BComplaints: interpretationN.I.

(1)This section applies for the purposes of this Part.

(2)A Commission complaint is a complaint by a qualifying complainant of maladministration by the Commission or a committee of the Commission.

(3)A departmental complaint is a complaint by a qualifying complainant of maladministration by the Lord Chancellor F3... in connection with any of the following—

(a)recommendation for or appointment to a listed judicial office;

(b)F4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4)A qualifying complainant is a complainant who claims to have been adversely affected, as an applicant for selection or as a person selected under this Part [F5or paragraph 2A of Schedule 11 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998], by the maladministration complained of.]]

Textual Amendments

F2S. 9B inserted (25.9.2006 for certain purposes and otherwise prosp.) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 125, 148; S.I. 2006/1537, art. 3(b)