We were debating this amendment yesterday evening. Since then I have had an opportunity of considering the matter. We have circulated an amendment that I propose to introduce on Report Stage which, I think, meets the point that was made by Senator O'Dea and other Senators. It is putting the onus of proof definitely on the prosecution. It is to delete paragraph (b)—that is where we gave that defence to the defendant, to prove that it had not been printed in Iris Oifigiúil. We are substituting therefor—
"the prosecutor does not prove that, at the date of the alleged contravention, notice of the making of the said statutory instrument had been published in the Iris Oifigiúil.”
It is the prosecutor that is required to prove that, instead of the defendant. Of course, we are retaining the other part in the Bill.