OMBUDSMAN ACT 2001 - SECT 51 Action after report making recommendations

OMBUDSMAN ACT 2001 - SECT 51

51 Action after report making recommendations

(1) This section applies if the ombudsman gives the principal officer of an agency a report under section 50 that makes recommendations.

(2) The ombudsman may ask the principal officer of the agency to give the ombudsman, within a stated time, comments about—

(a) the steps taken or proposed to be taken to give effect to the recommendations; or

(b) if no steps, or only some steps, have been or are proposed to be taken to give effect to the recommendations—the reasons for not taking steps, or all the steps, necessary to give effect to the recommendations.

(3) The ombudsman may give the Premier a copy of the report and a copy of any comments made by or for the principal officer of the agency if—

(a) it appears to the ombudsman that no steps the ombudsman considers appropriate have been taken within a reasonable time after giving the principal officer the report; and

(b) within that time, the ombudsman has considered any comments made by or for the principal officer; and

(c) the ombudsman considers it appropriate.

(4) If the ombudsman gives the Premier a copy of a report (the
"original report" ) and a copy of any comments, the ombudsman may give the Speaker, for tabling in the Assembly, another report that deals, to the extent the ombudsman considers appropriate, with the original report and the comments.