{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-public-services-ombudsman-act-2002-consequential-provisions-and-modifications-order-2004/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-public-services-ombudsman-act-2002-consequential-provisions-and-modifications-order-2004/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1823",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Act 2002 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-public-services-ombudsman-act-2002-consequential-provisions-and-modifications-order-2004",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Local Government Act 1974 (c. 7)",
  "text": "In section 33 of the Local Government Act 1974 (consultation between Local Commissioner, the Parliamentary Commissioner and the Health Service Commissioner)()–\n(a) in subsection (1)–\n(i) in paragraph (aa) omit “or”;\n(ii) after paragraph (b), insert–\n“or\n(c) by the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman in accordance with the Act of 2002,”;\n(iii) after “appropriate Commissioner or” omit “the”; and\n(iv) for “or under the Act of 1993” substitute “, the Act of 1993 or under the Act of 2002”;\n(b) in subsection (2)–\n(i) after “Welsh Administration Ombudsman” insert “, the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman”; and\n(ii) for “the Ombudsman”, substitute “that Ombudsman”;\n(c) in subsection (5) after “the Government of Wales Act 1998” insert “, in section 19 of the Act of 2002”; and\n(d) in subsection (6) after “Act 1993” insert “and the Act of 2002” means the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Act 2002”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 33 was amended by the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38), sections 125 and 152 and Schedule 12, paragraph 17 and Schedule 18, Part 1 and the Health Service Commissioners Act 1993 (c. 46), section 20 and Schedule 2, paragraph 4, and Schedule 3."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1823/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:22:35.711370+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."
}