{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-ombudsman-wales-act-2019/schedule-1/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-ombudsman-wales-act-2019/schedule-1/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2019/3",
  "legislation_title": "Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-ombudsman-wales-act-2019",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A person is disqualified from being the Ombudsman or an acting Ombudsman if any of the following applies—\n(a) the person is a member of the House of Commons;\n(b) the person is a listed authority;\n(c) the person is a member, co-opted member, officer or member of staff of a listed authority;\n(d) the person is disqualified from being a member of the Assembly (other than by virtue of holding office as the Ombudsman or an acting Ombudsman);\n(e) the person is disqualified from being a member of a local authority in Wales (other than by virtue of paragraph 7 of this Schedule);\n(f) the person is a care home provider, domiciliary care provider , independent palliative care provider or direct payment service provider;\n(g) the person is an officer or member of staff of a provider of that kind.\n(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(g) a person is an officer of a provider if the person has control or management of a provider which is not an individual or the affairs of such a provider.\n(3) The appointment of a person as the Ombudsman or an acting Ombudsman is not valid if the person is disqualified under sub-paragraph (1).\n(4) If a person who has been appointed as the Ombudsman or an acting Ombudsman becomes disqualified under sub-paragraph (1), the person ceases to hold office on becoming so disqualified.\n(5) But the validity of anything done by a person appointed as the Ombudsman or an acting Ombudsman is not affected by the fact that the person is or becomes disqualified under sub-paragraph (1).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 6(1)(d) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 42(1)(c) of the amending Act) by Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020 (anaw 1), s. 35(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 6(1)(f) substituted (1.1.2026) by Health and Social Care (Wales) Act 2025 (asc 1), s. 29(2), Sch. 2 para. 6(10)(a); S.I. 2025/1257, art. 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 6 in force at 23.7.2019 by S.I. 2019/1096, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2019/3/schedule/1/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:04.001338+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."
}