Ombudsman Act, 1980
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Staff of the Ombudsman. |
10.—(1) (a) There shall be employed in the office of the Ombudsman so many officers and servants as the Minister shall from time to time determine. | |
(b) The power of appointing a person to be an officer or servant of the Ombudsman shall be vested in the Minister. | ||
(2) Officers and servants of the Ombudsman shall be civil servants in the Civil Service of the State. | ||
(3) The Ombudsman may delegate to any of his officers any of his functions under this Act save those conferred by subsections (5) and (7) of section 6 of this Act or by this section. | ||
(4) The Minister may delegate to the Ombudsman the powers exercisable by him under the Civil Service Commissioners Act, 1956 , and the Civil Service Regulation Acts, 1956 and 1958, as the appropriate authority in relation to officers and servants of the Ombudsman, and, if he does so, then, so long as the delegation remains in force— | ||
(i) those powers shall, in lieu of being exercisable by the Minister, be exercisable by the Ombudsman, and | ||
(ii) the Ombudsman shall, in lieu of the Minister, be, for the purposes of this Act, the appropriate authority in relation to officers and servants of the Ombudsman. |