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Title, commencement, application and interpretation

1.—(1) The title of this Order is the Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Order 2006 and it shall come into force on 1 April 2006.

(2) This Order applies in relation to Wales.

(3) In this Order—

“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005;

“co-opted member” (“aelod cyfetholedig”) means, in relation to a relevant authority, a person who is not a member of the authority but who—

(a)

is a member of any committee or sub-committee of the authority, or

(b)

is a member of, and represents the authority on, any joint committee or joint sub-committee of the authority,

and who is entitled to vote on any question which falls to be decided at any meeting of that committee or sub-committee; and

“relevant authority” (“awdurdod perthnasol”) means a county council, a county borough council, a National Park authority established under section 63 of the Environment Act 1995(1) or a fire and rescue authority constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004(2) or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies.