3.—(1) A person is disqualified from being appointed as the Ombudsman if the person is disqualified from being a member of the Assembly.
(2) Where a person who is the Ombudsman—
(a)is appointed to an office which would disqualify the person from being a member of the Assembly,
(b)takes employment which would disqualify the person from being a member of the Assembly, or
(c)becomes a member of a body which would disqualify the person from being a member of the Assembly,
that person ceases immediately to be the Ombudsman.
(3) In this paragraph “disqualified from being a member of the Assembly” means disqualified from being a member of the Assembly under the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 as applied by section 36(1) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998.
(4) But references to disqualification from being a member of the Assembly do not include disqualification by virtue of being—
(a)the Ombudsman, under Part 3 of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975, or
(b)the Northern Ireland Judicial Appointments Ombudsman, under Part 3 of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975.