New South Wales Consolidated Acts

OMBUDSMAN ACT 1974 - SCHEDULE 2

SCHEDULE 2 – Savings and transitional provisions

(Section 40)

1 Regulations

(1) The regulations may contain provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of the following Acts:

Community Services Legislation Amendment Act 2002 (but only to the extent that it amends this Act)

Child Protection Legislation Amendment Act 2003

Ombudsman Amendment (Removal of Legal Professional Privilege) Act 2010

(2) Any such provision may, if the regulations so provide, take effect from the date of assent to the Act concerned or a later date.

(3) To the extent to which any such provision takes effect from a date that is earlier than the date of its publication in the Gazette, the provision does not operate so as:

(a) to affect, in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State or an authority of the State), the rights of that person existing before the date of its publication, or

(b) to impose liabilities on any person (other than the State or an authority of the State) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the date of its publication.

2 Existing Deputy Ombudsman and Assistant Ombudsman

Nothing in the Community Services Legislation Amendment Act 2002 affects the appointment of a person who held office as a Deputy Ombudsman or an Assistant Ombudsman immediately before the substitution of section 8 (1) by that Act.

3 Child Protection Legislation Amendment Act 2003

Subject to any regulations under clause 1, the amendments made to this Act by the Child Protection Legislation Amendment Act 2003 extend to matters arising before the commencement of those amendments, but do not affect any action that is or has been taken by the Ombudsman, or by the head or any employee of an agency, in relation to a matter notified to the Ombudsman before that commencement.