The Merseyside Residuary Body (Winding Up) Order 1989

Complaints of maladministration by Residuary Body

16.—(1) The Parliamentary Commissioner may investigate or, as the case may be, 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) where the complaint relates to the exercise of a function which by virtue of this Order becomes a function of Wirral, a reference to the proper officer of Wirral;

(b) where 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 Liverpooland as if any specified action had been taken by Wirral or as the case may be, by the local council or by Liverpool.

(1)

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