Ombudsman Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1978 No. 103

REGULATIONS UNDER THE OMBUDSMAN ACT 1976*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Ombudsman Act 1976.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of June 1978.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Education for and on behalf of the Prime Minister

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AMENDMENTS OF THE OMBUDSMAN REGULATIONS 

Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 July 1978.

2. Regulation 6 of the Ombudsman Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

Persons not to be taken to be prescribed authorities for the purposes of the Act

“ 6. For the purposes of the definition of ‘ prescribed authority ’ in section 3 of the Act, a person holding, or performing the duties of—

(a) an office specified in Schedule 3; or

(b) an office established by a provision of an enactment of the Northern Territory, being a provision relating to a matter in respect of which the Ministers of that Territory have executive authority,

is not to be taken to be a prescribed authority for the purposes of the Act.”.

Schedule 2

3. Schedule 2 to the Ombudsman Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof:

“ Darwin Community College ”,

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 June 1978.

  Statutory Rules 1977, No. 104.

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