The Greater Manchester Residuary Body (Winding Up) Order 1989

Complaints of maladministration by Residuary Body

15.—(1) The Parliamentary Commissioner may investigate, or, as the case may be may continue to investigate, a complaint of maladministration by the Residuary Body notwithstanding its winding up.

(2) In relation to any such investigation begun or continued after the transfer date, the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967(1) shall apply as if for any reference to the principal officer of the Residuary Body there were substituted—

(a) if the complaint related to a function which, by virtue of this Order, becomes a function of Tameside, a reference to the proper officer of Tameside;

(b) if the complaint relates to land which, by virtue of this Order, vests in a local council, a reference to the proper officer of that council; or

(c) in any other case, a reference to the proper officer of Stockport;

and as if any specific action had been taken, by Tameside or, as the case may be, the local council or Stockport.

(1)

1967 c. 13, applied to residuary bodies by paragraph 11 of Schedule 13 to the Local Government Act 1985.