When the public office holder contacted our office, the adviser was the one who received the information.
The normal course of action is that, when a public office holder has a question with regard to their obligations under the act, they contact their adviser. When the adviser receives the information and then makes an assessment of that information, at that point in time, they look at precedents and they make a recommendation, or they contact their manager or me, the director.
If there is any particular matter that should be raised with the commissioner at that point in time, it is raised with the commissioner. In this case, I did raise it with the management team to inform them of the appointment. However, there was no decision required, because Mr. Bains' two-year cooling-off period had lapsed.