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Chapter 4
Complaints against public bodies, schools and voluntary hospitals
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Function to examine and investigate complaints against public bodies.
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8.—Subject to this Act, the Ombudsman for Children may investigate any action taken (being an action taken in the performance of administrative functions) by or on behalf of a public body where, upon having carried out a preliminary examination of the matter, it appears to the Ombudsman for Children that—
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(a) the action has or may have adversely affected a child, and
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(b) the action was or may have been—
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(i) taken without proper authority,
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(ii) taken on irrelevant grounds,
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(iii) the result of negligence or carelessness,
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(iv) based on erroneous or incomplete information,
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(v) improperly discriminatory,
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(vi) based on an undesirable administrative practice, or
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(vii) otherwise contrary to fair or sound administration.
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