Vol. 100 No. 4
I move that the Committee agree with the Seanad in amendment No. 1:—
In page 3, Section 5, sub-section (2), paragraph (a), line 7, the words "normally resides" deleted and the words "shall be regarded as normally residing" inserted instead.
Question agreed to.
I move that the Committee agree with the Seanad in amendment No. 2:—
In page 3, at the end of Section 5 a new sub-section as follows inserted:—
(3) Rules prescribed under sub-section (2) of this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after they are prescribed, and if a resolution is passed by either House of the Oireachtas within the next subsequent 21 days on which that House has sat after the rules are laid before it annulling the rules, the rules shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under the rules.
Question agreed to.
I move that the Committee agree with the Seanad in amendment No. 3:—
In page 4, Section 9 deleted and the following section substituted instead:—
9.—A prosecution for an offence under Section 12 of the Act of 1944, as amended by this Act, may be brought at any time within whichever of the following periods later expires, that is to say—
(a) three months from the date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the Minister to justify a prosecution for the offence comes to his knowledge, or
(b) 12 months after the commission of the offence,
and a certificate under the official seal of the Minister as to the date on which such evidence comes to his knowledge shall be conclusive evidence thereof.
Question agreed to.
