Financial Services Ombudsman (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2014 (Commencement) (No. 2) Ordinance, 2015

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The Financial Services Ombudsman (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2014 (Commencement) (No. 2)

Ordinance, 2015

THE STATES, in exercise of the powers conferred on the States by sections 6(1), 26, 27 and 29(2) of the Financial Services Ombudsman (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2014[a], and all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby orders:-

Commencement.

1. The following provisions of the Financial Services Ombudsman (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2014 ("the Law") shall come into force on the 16^th November, 2015 -

(a) Part III (other than section 9),

(b) Part IV, and

Service of documents and jurisdiction.

2. (1) Any document to be given or served for the purposes of any legal proceedings may be given or served on OFSO, by being left at, or sent by post to, the address specified on the official OFSO website.

(2) In subsection (1), the expression "by post" means by registered post, recorded delivery service or ordinary letter post.

(3) For the avoidance of doubt, proceedings may not be instituted in any jurisdiction outside the Bailiwick of Guernsey in relation to -

(a) a determination (including any award of costs) made by an Ombudsman, or

(b) the handling of a complaint by OFSO or any person on its behalf,

in accordance with or for the purposes of Part IV of the Law.

Interpretation.

3. (1) In this Ordinance -

"enactment" means any Law, Ordinance or subordinate legislation,

"the Law" has the meaning given in section 1,

"subordinate legislation" means any regulation, rule, order, rule of court, resolution, scheme, byelaw or other instrument made under any enactment and having legislative effect

and other expressions have the same meanings as in the Law.

(2) The Interpretation (Guernsey) Law, 1948[b] applies to the interpretation of this Ordinance throughout the Bailiwick of Guernsey.

(3) Any reference in this Ordinance to an enactment is a reference thereto as from time to time amended, re-enacted (with or without modification), extended or applied.

Citation and commencement.

4. This Ordinance -

(a) may be cited as the Financial Services Ombudsman (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2014 (Commencement) (No. 2) Ordinance, 2015, and

(b) shall come into force on the 30^th September, 2015.

[a]	Order in Council No. I of 2015.
[b]	Ordres en Conseil Vol. XIII, p. 355.