Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act, 1998
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Withholding information. |
9.—(1) A person shall be guilty of an offence if he or she has information which he or she knows or believes might be of material assistance in— | |
(a) preventing the commission by any other person of a serious offence, or | ||
(b) securing the apprehension, prosecution or conviction of any other person for a serious offence, | ||
and fails without reasonable excuse to disclose that information as soon as it is practicable to a member of the Garda Síochána. | ||
(2) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on conviction on indictment to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or both. | ||
(3) In this section “serious offence” has the same meaning as it has in section 8 . |