Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 171:

In page 56, to delete lines 31 to 37 and in page 57, to delete lines 1 to 14 and substitute the following: “60. (1) (a) A person who—

(i) knowingly makes any false or misleading statement in any application or any document required thereunder or otherwise gives false or misleading information to the licensing authority or the appeals committee, or

(ii) forges, or fraudulently alters or uses, or fraudulently lends to, or allows to be used by, any other person, any licence under this Act, shall be guilty of an offence.

(b) Where a person is guilty of an offence under this subsection—

(i) the person shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a class A fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or both, and

(ii) where the person is a licensee, the person’s licence may be revoked.

(2) A person who is guilty of an offence—

(a) undersection 25(3)or 34(2)*shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a class A fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or both,”.

[*This is a reference to a subsection proposed to be inserted by amendment No. 59.]