Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 3A inserted (25.9.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 124, 148, Sch. 15; S.I. 2006/1537, art. 3
F2Sch. 3A paras. 1-1C and cross-headings substituted for Sch. 3A para. 1 (1.4.2016) by Public Services Ombudsman Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 4), s. 64, Sch. 6 para. 4
1A(1)Sub-paragraph (2) applies where—N.I.
(a)the provisions of this Act require the Ombudsman to exercise a specified function; but
(b)the Ombudsman is, under paragraph 1, ineligible to exercise that function.
(2)The Ombudsman must direct—
(a)a member of the office of the Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman; or
(b)any other appropriate person;
to exercise that function on behalf of the Ombudsman.
(3)The Ombudsman may direct—
(a)different persons to exercise different functions,
(b)different persons to exercise the same function.
(4)Where the Ombudsman has directed a person to exercise a specified function, that person is to be treated, for the purposes of exercising that function, as the Ombudsman.]]
