The Commissioner for Older People in Wales Regulations 2007

Relationship with older people in Wales

13.—(1) The Commissioner must take reasonable steps to ensure that —

(a) older people in Wales are made aware of the existence and functions of the Commissioner’s office;

(b) older people in Wales are made aware of the location of the Commissioner’s office or offices and the ways in which they may communicate with the Commissioner and his or her staff;

(c) such older people are encouraged to communicate with the Commissioner and his or her staff;

(d) the views of such older people are sought as to how the Commissioner should exercise his or her functions and as to the content of the Commissioner’s annual work programme; and

(e) the Commissioner and his or her staff make themselves available to such older people in the older persons' locality.

(2) In exercising the functions set out in paragraph (1) the Commissioner must have regard to what he or she reasonably considers to be the needs and circumstances of such older people.