SCHEDULES

[F1SCHEDULE 3AN.I.The Northern Ireland Judicial Appointments Ombudsman

Textual Amendments

[F2Ombudsman to direct a person to exercise specified functionsN.I.

Textual Amendments

F2Sch. 3A paras. 1-1C and cross-headings substituted for Sch. 3A para. 1 (1.4.2016) by Public Services Ombudsman Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 4), s. 64, Sch. 6 para. 4

1A(1)Sub-paragraph (2) applies where—N.I.

(a)the provisions of this Act require the Ombudsman to exercise a specified function; but

(b)the Ombudsman is, under paragraph 1, ineligible to exercise that function.

(2)The Ombudsman must direct—

(a)a member of the office of the Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman; or

(b)any other appropriate person;

to exercise that function on behalf of the Ombudsman.

(3)The Ombudsman may direct—

(a)different persons to exercise different functions,

(b)different persons to exercise the same function.

(4)Where the Ombudsman has directed a person to exercise a specified function, that person is to be treated, for the purposes of exercising that function, as the Ombudsman.]]