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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-ombudsman-act-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "nia/2016/4",
  "legislation_title": "Public Services Ombudsman Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-ombudsman-act-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A person is disqualified from being appointed as the Ombudsman if the person is disqualified from being a member of the Assembly.\n(2) Where a person who is the Ombudsman—\n(a) is appointed to an office which would disqualify the person from being a member of the Assembly,\n(b) takes employment which would disqualify the person from being a member of the Assembly, or\n(c) becomes a member of a body which would disqualify the person from being a member of the Assembly,\nthat person ceases immediately to be the Ombudsman.\n(3) In this paragraph “disqualified from being a member of the Assembly” means disqualified from being a member of the Assembly under the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 as applied by section 36(1) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998.\n(4) But references to disqualification from being a member of the Assembly do not include disqualification by virtue of being—\n(a) the Ombudsman, under Part 3 of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975, or\n(b) the Northern Ireland Judicial Appointments Ombudsman, under Part 3 of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/4/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:33:14.036130+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}