Comptroller and Auditor General and Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Special Provisions) Act, 1998

Amendment of Act of 1997.

19.—(1) The Act of 1997 is hereby amended—

(a) in section 4(2), by the substitution of “paragraph (a) of section 3(1)” for “paragraph (a)”,

(b) in section 5(4), by the substitution of “a committee referred to in subsection (1)(b)” for “a committee appointed pursuant to subsection (1)(b)”,

(c) in section 11(1), by the insertion after “immunities” of “in respect of those matters”, and

(d) in section 17(3), by the substitution of “subsection (8)” for “subsection (10)” in both places where it occurs.

(2) For the removal of doubt, it is hereby declared that one consent under subsection (1) of section 3 of the Act 1997 may relate to all the directions that will be given under that section by a committee referred to in that section in relation to a specified function or specified functions of that committee.

(3) A direction under subsection (1) of section 3 of the Act of 1997 for the purposes of section 10 of that Act may be given without the consent specified in that subsection.