Explanatory note

This Order makes transitional and saving provision for the investigation by the Welsh Administration Ombudsman (“WAO”) of complaints of maladministration in connection with action before 1st July 1999 taken in the exercise of certain administrative functions by the Welsh Office and other public bodies which are specified in paragraph 14(2) of Schedule 9 to the Government of Wales Act 1998. It provides for the transfer on 1st July 1999 to the WAO of the future conduct of the investigation of such complaints which at that date had been made to or were in the course of investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration. The Order makes consequential transitional and saving provision. The Office of the WAO is established by section 111 of, and Schedule 9 Part I to, the said Act of 1998.