2019 No. 132

Salaries

The Salaries (Public Services Ombudsman) Order (Northern Ireland) 2019

Made

Coming into operation

The Northern Ireland Assembly Commission, in exercise of the power conferred by paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the Public Services Ombudsman Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 F1 makes the following Order:

Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)

Citation and commencement1

This Order may be cited as the Salaries (Public Services Ombudsman) Order (Northern Ireland) 2019 and shall come into operation on 8th August 2019.

Retrospection2

Article 3 shall have effect from 1st August 2016.

Salary3

The annual salary payable to the Public Services Ombudsman is:

1

for the period 1st August 2016 to 31st July 2017, £92,920;

2

for the period 1st August 2017 to 31st July 2018, £94,778; and

3

from 1st August 2018, and in each subsequent year, £97,337.

Revocation4

The Salaries (Public Services Ombudsman) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 is revoked.

Signed by authority of the Assembly Commission on 17th July 2019.

Lesley Hogg Clerk to the Assembly

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order sets the salary for the office of Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman.

This provision is made with effect from 1st August 2019 under paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the Public Services Ombudsman Act (Northern Ireland 2016. Paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 1 to that Act provides that a salary Order may have retrospective effect, and this Order has such effect, increasing the salary payable to the Ombudsman with effect from 1st August 2016