Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Act 2006

15 Reports following discharge of particular functions E+W

(1) Regulations may make provision about the making by the Commissioner of reports following the discharge of any of his functions.

(2) The reference in subsection (1) to the Commissioner's functions does not include his powers under sections 2(3) and 9, to the extent that they are exercised in a field in which [F1 neither the Welsh Minsters, the First Minister for Wales nor the Counsel General to the Welsh Assembly Government have functions.]F1

(3) The regulations may in particular—

(a) specify the contents of a report and the persons to whom copies of a report must be sent;

(b) provide that the Commissioner may make a joint report with the Children's Commissioner for Wales where they have discharged their respective functions under this Act and the Care Standards Act 2000 (c. 14) in relation to the same matters;

(c) make provision about the publication of a report;

(d) specify any further action which the Commissioner is required or permitted to take after making a report.

[F2 (e) provide that the Commissioner may make a joint report with the Welsh Language Commissioner where they have discharged their respective functions under this Act and the Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 in relation to the same matters.]

(4) Subject to subsection (5), a report made by the Commissioner under the regulations must not—

(a) mention the name of any person, or

(b) include any particulars which, in the opinion of the Commissioner, are likely to identify any person and which, in his opinion, can be omitted without impairing the effectiveness of the report.

(5) Subsection (4) does not apply if, after taking account of the interests of any persons he thinks appropriate, the Commissioner considers it to be in the public interest to include that information in the report.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 15(2) substituted (the amendment coming into force immediately after the end of "the initial period" (which ended with the day of the first appointment of a First Minister on 25.5.2007) in accordance with art. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I. and see ss. 46, 161(5) of Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32)) by The Government of Wales Act 2006 (Consequential Modifications and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1388), arts. 1(2)(3), 3, Sch. 1 para. 134

F2 S. 15(3)(e) inserted (7.7.2015) by Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 1), s. 156(2), Sch. 3 para. 8; S.I. 2015/1413, art. 3(g)