Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

I move amendment No. 2:

In page 26, line 28, after "document" to insert "(within the meaning of this Act)".

This is an amendment to section 18. The purpose of this amendment and amendment No. 3 is to clarify the link between section 18, which provides for presumptions relating to documents, and section 5 of the Criminal Evidence Act 1992, which provides for the admissability of certain documentary evidence compiled in the ordinary course of business.

The amendment makes it clear that for the purposes of the presumptions in subsections 18(2) and 18(3) the word "document" will mean a document as defined in section 2 of this Bill rather than the narrower meaning given to that word by the Criminal Evidence Act 1992.

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