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General policy guidelines

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Part 2Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman
Division 1Establishment and functions and powers of the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman

16 General policy guidelines

In performing the Ombudsman’s functions, the Ombudsman must:

(a)

perform the Ombudsman’s functions in the most convenient and effective way possible; and

(b)

avoid duplicating the operations of any other agency of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory that performs a function that wholly or partly overlaps with a function of the Ombudsman; and

(c)

work co‑operatively, as far as is possible, with other agencies of the Commonwealth, the States and the Territories to perform the Ombudsman’s functions; and

(d)

comply with all other laws of the Commonwealth.

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