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FO-SCRIBHINN.APPENDIX.1. New Section. After section 10 a new section inserted as follows:— “11.—(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 85 of the Courts of Justice Act, 1924, an appeal shall lie against an order of a Justice of the District Court for the payment of any penal sum under section 7 or section 10 of this Act or for any term of imprisonment under section 7 of this Act to the Judge of the Circuit Court within whose Circuit the District or any part of the District of the Justice lies. (2) The Justice of the District Court or the Judge of the Circuit Court shall, if requested by any party to any proceeding under this Act (unless he considers the request frivolous), and may, without request, refer any question of law arising in a proceeding under this Act to the Supreme Court for determination, and the determination of the Supreme Court thereon shall be final and conclusive.” 2. Section 11, sub-section (6), line 60. The words “purport to act” deleted and the words “produces a certificate in writing signed by a superintendent of the Gárda Síochána that he is acting” substituted therefor. 3. Section 11. A new sub-section added as follows:— “(7) Every appointment and every certificate signed by a superintendent of the Gárda Síochána under this section shall contain a reference to the prohibition on the disclosure of information imposed by Section 14 of this Act.” 4. Section 13, sub-section (1), line 3. The words “Neither any” deleted and the word “No” substituted therefor. 5. Section 13, sub-section (1), line 5. The words “nor any” deleted and the words “and no” substituted therefor. 6. Section 13, sub-section (1), line 6. After the word “document” the words “and no verbal information or answer given relating to any individual person, business or concern” inserted. 7. Section 14, sub-section (1). The words “or any verbal information or answer given relating to any individual person, business or concern” added at the end of the sub-section. 8. Section 14, sub-section (2), line 50. After the word “aforesaid” the words “or any verbal information or answer given relating to any individual person, business or concern” inserted. 9. New section. After section 16 a new section inserted as follows:— “17.—Any order made under sub-section (1) of section 16 of this Act shall be laid as soon as may be on the Table of both Houses of the Oireachtas.” 10. New section. After Section 17 a new section inserted as follows:— “Nothing in this Act shall be construed to require any person to give information in relation to a matter as to which his knowledge was acquired in circumstances that would entitle him to decline to give such information in a civil proceeding in a Court of Law on the ground of privilege or to require a bank or corporation carrying on the business of banking or any official thereof to furnish any particulars which would enable any person to identify such particulars as relating to any individual person, business or concern without the consent in writing of that person or of the proprietor of that business or concern.” |
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