Criminal Justice Act 2006
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PART 7 Organised Crime | ||
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Interpretation (Part 7). |
70.—(1) In this Part— | |
“ act” includes omission and a reference to the commission or doing of an act includes a reference to the making of an omission; | ||
“ criminal organisation” means a structured group, however organised, that— | ||
(a) is composed of 3 or more persons acting in concert, | ||
(b) is established over a period of time, | ||
(c) has as its main purpose or main activity the commission or facilitation of one or more serious offences in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or other material benefit; | ||
“ Irish ship” has the meaning it has in section 9 of the Mercantile Marine Act 1955 ; | ||
“ serious offence” means an offence for which a person may be punished by imprisonment for a term of 4 years or more; | ||
“ structured group” means a group that— | ||
(a) is not randomly formed for the immediate commission of a single offence, and | ||
(b) does not need to have formally defined roles for its members, continuity of its membership or a developed structure. | ||
(2) For the purposes of this section facilitation of an offence does not require knowledge of a particular offence the commission of which is facilitated, or that an offence actually be committed. |