Ombudsman Regulation 1999 (NSW)

1Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Ombudsman Regulation 1999.

2Commencement

This Regulation commences on 7 May 1999.

3Definitions

In this Regulation:

the Act means the Ombudsman Act 1974.

4Notes

The explanatory note and table of contents do not form part of this Regulation.

5Designated non-government agencies

The following bodies are prescribed for the purposes of the definition of designated non-government agency in section 25A of the Act, as referred to in paragraph (d) of that definition:

• (a)

  (Repealed)

• (b)

  any affiliated health organisation within the meaning of the Health Services Act 1997.

6Designated government agencies

The following bodies are prescribed for the purposes of the definition of designated government agency in section 25A of the Act, as referred to in paragraph (c) of that definition:

• (a)

  a statutory health corporation within the meaning of the Health Services Act 1997,

• (b)

  the Ambulance Service of New South Wales,

• (c)

  the TAFE Commission,

• (d)

  the Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care.

7Head of agencies(1)

This clause applies to an agency referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of the definition of designated non-government agency in section 25A (1) of the Act that is:

• (a)

  under the authority of a Catholic Bishop of New South Wales, or

• (b)

  governed by the provincial or other head of a religious organisation listed in Schedule 1.

(2)

For the purposes of the definition of head of an agency in section 25A (1) of the Act, the Executive Director of the Catholic Commission for Employment Relations is to be regarded as the head of an agency to which this clause applies.

Schedule 1Religious organisations

(Clause 7)

Associations of Christ’s Faithful

Society of St Vincent de Paul

Catholic health organisations

Hawkesbury District Health Service

Independent schools and colleges

Trinity Catholic College Limited Lismore

Kincoppal—Rose Bay

Religious congregations

Loreto Sisters (Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary)

Sisters of the Good Samaritan

Missionary Sisters of the Society of St Mary

Hospitaller Order of St John of God

Sisters of St Joseph Maitland

Society of the Divine Word

Passionists

Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy Gunnedah

Marist Fathers Australian Province

Franciscan Missionaries of Mary

St Columban’s Mission Society

Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, NSW

Dominican Sisters of Eastern Australia

Sisters of Mercy Wilcannia Forbes

De La Salle Brothers

Presentation Sisters Lismore

Christian Brothers NSW

Missionaries of the Sacred Heart

Sisters of Mercy Grafton

Redemptorist Congregation

Sisters of St Joseph Perthville

Order of St Augustine

Sisters of Mercy Bathurst

Religious Sisters of Charity of Australia

Sisters of St Joseph Goulburn

Congregation of the Mission (Vincentian Fathers and Brothers)

Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart

Presentation Sisters Wagga Wagga

Missionary Sisters of Mary Queen

Benedictine Monks

Sisters of Mercy Singleton

Sisters of Mercy Goulburn

Parramatta Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy

Salesians of Don Bosco (including Boys’ Town Engadine)

Marist Brothers Drummoyne (Sydney Province)

Ursulines of the Roman Union

The Trustees of the Maronite Sisters of the Holy Family

Carmelites: Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Sisters of St Paul of Chartres

Congregation of the Poor Sisters of Nazareth

Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul

Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary

Sisters of Mercy North Sydney

Order of St Clare—Poor Clare

Lebanese Maronite Order

Society of the Sacred Heart

Good Shepherd Sisters