Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2021 (13 of 2021)

Schedule 2   Further consequential amendments

Ombudsman Act 1976

646   Subsection 3(1)

Insert:

chief executive officer , in relation to a court or tribunal, means the person holding the office, or performing the duties, of:

(a) in relation to the High Court - the Chief Executive and Principal Registrar of the Court; or

(b) in relation to the Federal Court of Australia - the Chief Executive Officer and Principal Registrar of the Court; or

(c) in relation to the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 1) - the Chief Executive Officer and Principal Registrar of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 1); or

(d) in relation to the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2) - the Chief Executive Officer and Principal Registrar of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 1); or

(e) in relation to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal - the Registrar of the Tribunal; or

(f) in relation to a court or tribunal declared by the regulations - the office declared by those regulations to be the office of the chief executive officer of the court or tribunal for the purposes of this Act; or

(g) an office prescribed by the regulations in lieu of an office referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e).