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Channel Islands Financial Ombudsman: Annual Report 2020

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A decision made on 1 June 2021

Decision Reference: MD-E-2021-0024

Decision Summary Title

Channel Islands Financial Ombudsman Annual Report 2020

Date of Decision Summary

21 May 2021

Decision Summary author

Associate Director, Financial Services

Decision Summary:

Public or exempt?

Public

Written Report

title

Channel Islands Financial Ombudsman Annual Report 2020

Date of Written Report

20 May 2021

Written Report author

Chair – Channel Islands Financial Ombudsman

Written Report:

Public or exempt?

Public

Subject:  Channel Islands Financial Ombudsman Annual Report 2020

Decision:  The Minister for Economic Development, Tourism, Sport and Culture (EDTSC), received the Annual Report for 2020 of the Channel Islands Financial Ombudsman and decided that it should be presented to the States Assembly as a formal Report.

Reasons for Decision: Schedule 2 of the Financial Services Ombudsman (Jersey) Law 2014 provides that the Minister must lay a copy of the accounts and report prepared by the Office of the Financial Services Ombudsman before the States not later than two months after receiving them.

Resource Implications: There are no financial or manpower resource implications resulting from this decision.

Action required: The Associate Director, Financial Services, to inform the Greffier of the States of this decision and request that the Channel Islands Financial Ombudsman Annual Report 2020 be presented to the States Assembly as a Report in the ‘R’ series.

Signature:

 

 

 

 

 

Senator Lyndon Farnham

Position:

 

Minister for Economic Development, Tourism, Sport and Culture

Date signed:

Date of Decision (If different)

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