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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 May 2021)

James Browne: I move amendment No. 10: In page 9, line 10, to delete “dishonestly” where it firstly occurs. Amendments Nos. 10 and 11 are technical amendments to the wording of this section on the advice of the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel. It is not necessary to use the adverb" dishonestly" for the purposes of this section. The view taken is that its inclusion serves no useful...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 May 2021)

James Browne: I move amendment No. 11: In page 9, line 10, to delete “dishonestly” where it secondly occurs.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 May 2021)

James Browne: I move amendment No. 12: In page 9, line 11, to delete “material in those proceedings” and substitute “material for that purpose”.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 May 2021)

James Browne: I move amendment No. 13: In page 9, to delete lines 15 to 17 and substitute the following: “(2) A person who gives or causes to be given, or adduces or causes to be adduced, an affidavit for the purposes of the Bills of Sale (Ireland) Acts 1879 and 1883 that— (a) is false in any material aspect, and (b) he or she knows to be false, commits an offence.”.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 May 2021)

James Browne: I move amendment No. 14: In page 9, line 19, to delete “dishonestly”.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 May 2021)

James Browne: I move amendment No. 15: In page 9, line 20, to delete “dishonestly”.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 May 2021)

James Browne: I move amendment No. 16: In page 9, line 21, to delete “material in those proceedings”.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 May 2021)

James Browne: I move amendment No. 17 In page 9, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “(b) a statement of truth made in place of a statutory declaration in accordance with section 21 of the Act of 2020,”.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 May 2021)

James Browne: I move amendment No. 18: In page 9, line 26, to delete “relevant Act” and substitute “enactment”.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 May 2021)

James Browne: I move amendment No. 19: In page 9, line 28, to delete “relevant Act” and substitute “enactment”.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 May 2021)

James Browne: I am proposing that section 8 be deleted. Section 8 provides for an offence of making a false declaration or representation in obtaining registration for a professional calling. An extensive review of the regulated professions in the State was undertaken by my officials and it became apparent that those professions which maintain a statutory register for entry to the profession already...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 May 2021)

James Browne: I move amendment No. 20: In page 10, lines 14 and 15, to delete “an offence against this Act” and substitute “an offence under this Act”. This is a technical amendment to adjust slightly the wording used in section 9 to the more usual formulation used in primary legislation.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 May 2021)

James Browne: I move amendment No. 21: In page 10, to delete line 27 and substitute the following: “(b) for subornation of perjury in respect of perjury alleged to have been committed on any such trial,”. This is a technical amendment to section 11 to bring the section in line with the other provisions of the Bill. Given the definition of "subornation of perjury" in section 3 which...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 May 2021)

James Browne: I move amendment No. 22: In page 11, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “Liability of directors and officers of corporate bodies 14. (1) Where an offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate and the offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any wilful neglect of, a person who, when the offence...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 May 2021)

James Browne: I move amendment No. 23: In page 11, lines 12 to 14, to delete all words from and including “ (1) Proceedings” in line 12 down to and including line 14 and substitute the following: “(1) No proceedings for an offence under this Act, or for an offence of perjury or subornation of perjury under any other enactment or law, shall be brought except by, or with the consent...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 May 2021)

James Browne: I move amendment No. 24: In page 11, line 16, to delete “offence under this section” and substitute the following: “offence under this Act or an offence of perjury or subornation of perjury under any other enactment or law”. This amendment amends the reference to summary proceedings in section 14(2) of the Bill so that it reads "summary proceedings in...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 May 2021)

James Browne: I move amendment No. 25: In page 11, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “(1) Where the making of a false statement is— (a) an offence under section 5 or 6 of this Act, and (b) an offence that is punishable on summary conviction only under another enactment that came into operation before the coming into operation of this Act, a person shall be liable to be...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 May 2021)

James Browne: I move amendment No. 26: In page 11, to delete lines 31 to 39, and in page 12, to delete line 1.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 May 2021)

James Browne: I move amendment No. 27: In page 12, line 8, to delete “Perjury and Related Offences Act 2019” and substitute “Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Act 2021”. Amendment No. 27 amends the short title of the Bill in accordance with the usual formulation used for Government Bills, which provides for criminal offences by renaming it the Criminal Justice...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 May 2021)

James Browne: I move amendment No. 28: In page 12, line 20, to delete “Minister” and substitute “Minister for Justice”.