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Amendment of section 3 of Principal Act.
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3.—Section 3 (interpretation) of the Principal Act shall be amended—
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(a) by the substitution of the following definitions for the definitions of “political offence” and “revenue offence”:
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“‘political offence’ does not include the taking or attempted taking of the life of a Head of State or a member of his family or an offence within the scope of Article 3 of the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances done at Vienna on the 20th day of December, 1988;
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‘revenue offence’, in relation to any country or place outside the State, means an offence in connection with taxes, duties or exchange control but does not include an offence involving the use or threat of force or perjury or the forging of a document issued under statutory authority or an offence alleged to have been committed by an officer of the revenue of that country or place in his capacity as such officer or an offence within the scope of Article 3 of the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances done at Vienna on the 20th day of December 1988;”,
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and
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(b) by the insertion of the following definition before the definition of “the Minister”:
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“‘judge of the District Court assigned to the Dublin Metropolitan District’ means the President of the District Court and any other judge of the District Court assigned to the Dublin Metropolitan District nominated for the purposes of this Act by the President of the District Court;”.
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