Article 15 Complaints of maladministration by Residuary Body

(1)

The Parliamentary Commissioner may investigate, or, as the case may be may continue to investigate, a complaint of maladministration by the Residuary Body notwithstanding its winding up.

(2)

In relation to any such investigation begun or continued after the transfer date, the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967^f1 shall apply as if for any reference to the principal officer of the Residuary Body there were substituted—

(a)

if the complaint related to a function which, by virtue of this Order, becomes a function of Tameside, a reference to the proper officer of Tameside;

(b)

if the complaint relates to land which, by virtue of this Order, vests in a local council, a reference to the proper officer of that council; or

(c)

in any other case, a reference to the proper officer of Stockport;

and as if any specific action had been taken, by Tameside or, as the case may be, the local council or Stockport.

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Footnotes

f1: 1967 c. 13, applied to residuary bodies by paragraph 11 of Schedule 13 to the Local Government Act 1985.