Ombudsman (National Student Ombudsman) Rules 2025

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

Ombudsman (National Student Ombudsman) Rules 2025

I, Mark Dreyfus KC, Attorney‑General, make the following rules.

Dated  23 January 2025  

Mark Dreyfus KC

Attorney-General

 

 

 

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

Part 2—Prescribed bodies

5  State or Territory bodies prescribed for the purposes of section 21AE of the Act

 

 

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name

  This instrument is the Ombudsman (National Student Ombudsman) Rules 2025.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

• Commencement information
• Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
• Provisions Commencement Date/Details
• 1. The whole of this instrument At the same time as Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Universities Accord (National Student Ombudsman) Act 2024 commences.However, the provisions do not commence at all if that Part does not commence.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under section 21AZL of the Ombudsman Act 1976.

4  Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following:

1.       prescribed body;
2.       State or Territory body.

  In this instrument:

Act means the Ombudsman Act 1976.

Part 2—Prescribed bodies

5  State or Territory bodies prescribed for the purposes of section 21AE of the Act

 (1) For the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of prescribed body in subsection 21AE(5) of the Act, each of the following bodies is prescribed:

 (a) ACT Integrity Commission;

 (b) Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Tasmania;

 (c) Anti-Discrimination Board, New South Wales;

 (d) Commissioner for Equal Opportunity, South Australia;

 (e) Crime and Corruption Commission, Queensland;

 (f) Human Rights Commission, Australian Capital Territory;

 (g) Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission, Victoria;

 (h) Independent Commission Against Corruption, New South Wales;

 (i) Independent Commission Against Corruption, South Australia;

 (j) Information Commissioner, New South Wales;

 (k) Integrity Commission, Tasmania;

 (l) Office for Public Integrity, South Australia;

 (m) Privacy Commissioner, New South Wales;

 (n) Public Sector Commission, Western Australia;

 (o) Queensland Human Rights Commission;

 (p) South Australian Skills Commission; and

 (q) Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission.