Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Act 2025

Amendment of section 10 of Principal Act

6. Section 10 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in subsection (1), by the substitution of “The Minister shall appoint a person specified in subsection (1A)” for “Where there are 2 or more Deputy Ombudsmen, one of those shall be appointed by the Minister”,

(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (1):

“(1A) The person referred to in subsection (1) shall be—

(a) where there is one Deputy Ombudsman, that Deputy Ombudsman,

(b) where there is more than one Deputy Ombudsman, one of those Deputy Ombudsmen, or

(c) where there is no Deputy Ombudsman, a member of staff appointed under section 15(1).”,

(c) in subsection (3), by the substitution of “a person” for “a Deputy Ombudsman”, and

(d) in subsection (4), by the substitution of “A person appointed under this section” for “A Deputy Ombudsman”.