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Certain offences against the State.
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3.—(1) Every person who commits any of the following acts, that is to say:—
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(a) attempts or takes part or is concerned in an attempt by force of arms or other violent means to overawe or intimidate in any way either the Governor-General or the Executive Council or any member thereof or any other minister duly appointed under and in accordance with the Constitution, or the Oireachtas or either House thereof, or any lawful court or any judge of any such court with a view to influencing their or his actions, or
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(b) assists, encourages, harbours or protects any person engaged or taking part or concerned in any such attempt as aforesaid, or
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(c) conspires with any person (other than his or her wife or husband) or incites any person to make or to take part or be concerned in any such attempt, or
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(d) sets up or holds or purports to set up or hold any court of justice or court-martial (not being a court or court-martial duly established and maintained according to law) or assists or takes part in or is present at the proceedings of any such pretended court or court-martial, or
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(e) incites any member of a military or police force lawfully maintained by the Government of Saorstát Eireann to mutiny, or to desert from such force, or to refuse to obey lawful orders given to him by a superior officer, or to absent himself from or to refuse, neglect, or omit to perform any of his duties, or to commit any other act in dereliction of his duty, or
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(f) incites any person in the civil service (other than a police force) of the Government of Saorstát Eireann to refuse, neglect, or omit to perform his duty,
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shall be guilty of felony and on conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds or, at the discretion of the court, to suffer penal servitude for any term not exceeding twenty years or imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such penal servitude or imprisonment.
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(2) No person shall be liable to be convicted under this section in respect of the act of encouraging, harbouring or protecting mentioned in paragraph (b) of the foregoing sub-section if he satisfies the court that he did not know and had no reason to believe that the person he encouraged, harboured or protected was engaged, concerned or taking part in any such attempt as is referred to in the said paragraph.
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