Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. II (ss. 21-31) extended (6.4.1995) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 3 para. 18 (with s. 128(2)); S.I. 1995/702, art. 4(1), Sch. 2 (subject to art. 4(2) and to saving and transitional provision in art. 7)
Pt. II (ss. 21-31) applied (with modifications) (6.4.1995) (temp. until 1.4.1996) by S.I. 1995/789, art. 2, Sch. para. 4
(1)In this Part of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
“action” includes failure to act, and other expressions connoting action shall be construed accordingly;
“the Commissioner” means the Commissioner for Local Administration in Scotland;
“person aggrieved” means the person who claims or is alleged to have sustained any such injustice as is mentioned in section 24(1) of this Act;
“the Parliamentary Commissioner” means the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration;
“the designated body” means the body designated under section 22 of this Act;
“tribunal” includes the person constituting a tribunal consisting of one person.
(2)It is hereby declared that nothing in this Part of this Act authorises or requires the Commissioner to question the merits of a decision taken without maladministration by an authority in the exercise of a discretion vested in that authority.
[F1(2A)Except in the case of a joint board or joint committee, references in this Part of this Act to the authority concerned are, in relation to action taken by or on behalf of an authority to whom this Part of this Act applies (whether by virtue of subsection (1) or (2) of section 23 of this Act), references to that authority.]
Textual Amendments