New South Wales Consolidated Acts

OMBUDSMAN ACT 1974 - SECT 25C

25C Reporting of reportable allegations or convictions to Ombudsman

(1) The head of a designated government or non-government agency must notify the Ombudsman of the following:

(a) any reportable allegation, or reportable conviction, against an employee of the agency of which the head of the agency becomes aware,

(b) whether or not the agency proposes to take any disciplinary or other action in relation to the employee and the reasons why it intends to take or not to take any such action,

(c) any written submissions made to the head of the agency concerning any such allegation or conviction that the employee concerned wished to have considered in determining what (if any) disciplinary or other action should be taken in relation to the employee.

(2) The notification must be made as soon as practicable and, in the case of the notification of a reportable allegation or reportable conviction, must be made, in any event, within 30 days of the head of the agency becoming aware of the allegation or conviction (or within such further period as may be agreed to by the Ombudsman).

(3) The head of the agency must make arrangements within the agency to require employees of the agency to notify the head of the agency of any such reportable allegation or conviction of which they become aware.