Valid from 25/09/2006
[F1Powers of the OmbudsmanN.I.
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 3A inserted (25.9.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 124, 148, Sch. 15; S.I. 2006/1537, art. 3
9(1)The Ombudsman does not have power to do any of the following—N.I.
(a)to borrow money;
(b)to hold real property;
(c)to appoint staff (except by way of arrangements under paragraph 10).
(2)Subject to sub-paragraph (1), the Ombudsman may do anything calculated to facilitate, or incidental or conducive to, the carrying out of any of his functions.
(3)Nothing in this Schedule is to be read as limiting the generality of sub-paragraph (2).]