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Amendment of section 10 of Principal Act
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6. Section 10 of the Principal Act is amended—
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(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”,
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(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (1):
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“(1A) The person referred to in subsection (1) shall be—
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(a) where there is one Deputy Ombudsman, that Deputy Ombudsman,
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(b) where there is more than one Deputy Ombudsman, one of those Deputy Ombudsmen, or
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(c) where there is no Deputy Ombudsman, a member of staff appointed under section 15(1).”,
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(c) in subsection (3), by the substitution of “a person” for “a Deputy Ombudsman”, and
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(d) in subsection (4), by the substitution of “A person appointed under this section” for “A Deputy Ombudsman”.
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