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<Text>This section applies if it appears to the Ombudsman that—</Text>
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<Text>If the Ombudsman considers it appropriate, the Ombudsman must inform the relevant Commissioner about the connected matter.</Text>
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<Text>If the Ombudsman considers that the matter is a matter into which the Ombudsman is entitled to conduct an investigation (the “Ombudsman matter”), the Ombudsman must also, if the Ombudsman considers it appropriate—</Text>
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<Text>If the Ombudsman and the relevant Commissioner consider that they are entitled to investigate, respectively, the Ombudsman matter and the connected matter, they may—</Text>
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<Text>co-operate with each other in the separate investigation of each of those matters,</Text>
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<Text>act together in the investigation of those matters, and</Text>
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