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Amendment of section 70 (prosecution of offences) of Principal Act.
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64.—Section 70 of the Principal Act is hereby amended—
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(a) in subsection (2) by the deletion of “not below the rank of Assistant Secretary”, and
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(b) by the insertion of the following after subsection (3):
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“(4) Nothing in this section shall prevent the prosecution under the Customs Acts for offences committed under the said Acts in respect of a contravention of section 53A of this Act.”,
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and the said subsection (2), as so amended, is set out in the Table to this section.
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TABLE
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(2) Subject to section 44(4) of this Act, summary proceedings for any offence under this Act may be prosecuted by a person who is neither the Minister nor a member of the Garda Síochána with the consent of the Minister or an officer of the Minister nominated by the Minister for the purpose.
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