The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) (Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2016

Public Services Ombudsman for Wales (Standards Investigations) Order 2006

72.  In Schedule 2 (application of provisions of the 2000 Act with modifications) paragraph 5, for sub-paragraph (c) substitute the following—

“(c) after paragraph (f), the following paragraph is inserted—

“(g) the disclosure is for the purposes of an investigation or report of an investigation under Part 2 or Part 2A of the Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005.””(1).

(1)

Paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales (Standards Investigations) Order 2006 makes modifications to section 63 of the Local Government Act 2000 (c. 22) for the purposes of investigations under section 69 of that Act. Section 63 was repealed, subject to savings provisions, by Schedule 4 of the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20) and that repeal was commenced on 31 January 2012 by the Localism Act 2011 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional and Saving Provision) Order 2012/57. Section 70(2)(a) of the Local Government Act 2000 permits Orders made under section 70(1) to apply or reproduce, with or without modifications, “any provisions of sections 60 to 63 as those sections had effect immediately before their repeal by the Localism Act 2011”.