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Amendment of section 102 of Principal Act
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48. Section 102 (as amended by section 6 of the Act of 2015) of the Principal Act is amended—
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(a) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (4):
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“(4A) The Authority may, if it appears to it desirable in the public interest to do so, request the Ombudsman Commission to investigate any matter relating to policing services that gives rise to a concern that a member of the Garda Síochána may have done anything referred to in subsection (4), and the Commission shall investigate that matter.”,
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(b) in subsection (5A), by the substitution of “subsection (4), (4A) or (5) ” for “subsection (4) or (5) ”,
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(c) in subsection (6), by the substitution of “subsection (4), (4A) or (5) ” for “subsection (4)or (5) ”, and
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(d) by the addition of the following subsection after subsection (6):
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“(7) Notwithstanding subsections (4A) and (5) —
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(a) the Authority may refer to the Ombudsman Commission any matter relating to policing services, and
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(b) the Minister may refer to the Ombudsman Commission any matter,
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that gives rise to a cause for concern that a member of the Garda Síochána may have done anything referred to in subsection (4) for the Commission to consider whether the matter is one that it should investigate under that subsection.”.
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