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PART 2INVESTIGATIONS

Procedure for making complaint to the Ombudsman

Duty to inform person aggrieved about the Ombudsman

25.—(1) This section applies where a listed authority’s complaints handling procedure is exhausted.

(2) The authority must, within 2 weeks of the day on which the complaints handling procedure is exhausted give the person aggrieved a written notice stating—

(a)that the complaints handling procedure is exhausted, and

(b)that the person aggrieved may, if dissatisfied, refer the complaint to the Ombudsman.

(3) A notice under subsection (2) must—

(a)inform the person aggrieved of the time limit for referring the complaint to the Ombudsman, and

(b)provide details of how to contact the Ombudsman.