Section 17 Use of information by Commissioner in other capacity.C1

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

This section applies where F1the Commissioner also holds F2... the office of Parliamentary Commissioner (an “additional office”).

(2)

Where—

(a)

a person initiates a complaint to the Commissioner as the holder of the additional office, and

(b)

the complaint relates partly to a matter with respect to which that person has previously initiated, or subsequently initiates, a complaint to the Commissioner in his capacity as such,

information obtained by the Commissioner or his officers in the course of or for the purposes of the investigation of that other complaint may be disclosed for the purposes of carrying out his functions in relation to the complaint initiated to him as the holder of the additional office.

F3(3)

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in s. 17(1) substituted (1.4.2006) by Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (c. 10), s. 40, Sch. 6 para. 49(2)(a) (with s. 38); S.I. 2005/2800, art. 5(1)(3)
F2: Words in s. 17(1) repealed (1.4.2006) by Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (c. 10), s. 40, Sch. 6 para. 49(2)(b), Sch. 7 (with s. 38); S.I. 2005/2800, art. 5(1)(3)
F3: S. 17(3) repealed (1.4.2006) by Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (c. 10), s. 40, Sch. 6 para. 49(3) (with s. 38); S.I. 2005/2800, art. 5(1)(3)

Modifications

C1: S. 17 extended (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1351, art. 17(5)(a); S.I. 1998/3178, art. 3

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Act repealed (S.) (23.10.2002) by 2002 asp 11, s. 25(1), Sch. 6 para. 14 (with savings in Sch. 7); S.S.I. 2002/467, art. 2