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17 Use of information by Commissioner in other capacity. E+W+S

(1) This section applies where a Commissioner also holds [F1 any] of the other offices of Health Service Commissioner, [F2 the office of a Local Commissioner for Wales,] the office of Welsh Administration Ombudsman or the office of Parliamentary Commissioner (an “additional office”).

(2) Where—

(a) a person initiates a complaint to the Commissioner as the holder of the additional office, and

(b) the complaint relates partly to a matter with respect to which that person has previously initiated, or subsequently initiates, a complaint to the Commissioner in his capacity as such,

information obtained by the Commissioner or his officers in the course of or for the purposes of the investigation of that other complaint may be disclosed for the purposes of carrying out his functions in relation to the complaint initiated to him as the holder of the additional office.

[F3 (3) In this section “Local Commissioner for Wales” means a Local Commissioner (within the meaning of Part 3 of the Local Government Act 1974) who is a member of the Commission for Local Administration in Wales.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in s. 17(1) substituted (E.W.) (24.9.2004) by The Regulatory Reform (Local Commissioner for Wales) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2359), arts. 1(3), 3(2)(a)

F2 Words in s. 17(1) inserted (E.W.) (24.9.2004) by The Regulatory Reform (Local Commissioner for Wales) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2359), arts. 1(3), 3(2)(a)

F3 S. 17(3) inserted (E.W.) (24.9.2004) by The Regulatory Reform (Local Commissioner for Wales) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2359), arts. 1(3), 3(2)(b)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 17 extended (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1351, art. 17(5)(a); S.I. 1998/3178, art. 3