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TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION AND ACCESS) ACT 1979 - SECT 186E

Application of Ombudsman Act

  (1)   Section   11A of the Ombudsman Act 1976 does not apply in relation to the exercise or proposed exercise of a power, or the performance or the proposed performance of a function, of the Ombudsman under this Chapter.

  (2)   A reference in section   19 of the Ombudsman Act 1976 to the Ombudsman's operations does not include a reference to anything that an inspecting officer has done or omitted to do under this Chapter.

  (3)   Subject to section   186D of this Act, subsections   35(2), (3), (4) and (8) of the Ombudsman Act 1976 apply for the purposes of this Chapter and so apply as if:

  (a)   a reference in those subsections to an officer were a reference to an inspecting officer; and

  (b)   a reference in those subsections to information did not include a reference to lawfully accessed information or lawfully intercepted information; and

  (c)   a reference in those subsections to that Act were a reference to this Chapter; and

  (d)   paragraph   35(3)(b) of that Act were omitted; and

  (e)   section   35A of that Act had not been enacted.


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