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Version date: 30 April 2013 - onwards
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40. Application of Ombudsman Act 1980.

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Ombudsman Act 1980, that Act shall apply to a determination of an inquiry officer or a decision of a complaints officer in relation to a sectoral plan with the following and any other necessary modifications as if it were an action taken by or on behalf of a reviewable agency (within the meaning of that Act):

(a) in section 1, in subsection (1), the following shall be inserted after the definition of "functions":

"‘head’, in relation to a public body, and ‘public body’, have the meanings assigned to them by the Disability Act 2005;";

(b) in section 4, in subsection (2), the words from and including "in the performance" to the end of the subsection and subsection (4) shall be deleted;

(c) in section 5, in subsection (1)(a), subparagraph (iii) shall be deleted;

(d) in section 6, the following subsection shall be substituted for subsection (3) and (3A):