Tim O'Malley (Limerick East, Progressive Democrats)

Section 29(7) makes it an offence for an individual to produce for inspection an identity card issued to another person by the authority or to forge or use a document purporting to be such an identity card. It does not deal specifically with a situation in which a person produces an identification document issued by a corresponding authority to another person or a forgery of such a document.

This amendment broadens the definition of "identity card" for the purposes of subsection (7) to include a form of identification issued by a corresponding authority. This will mean that it will also be an offence for an individual to produce an identity card or form of identification issued by a corresponding authority or to forge or use such a document. The amendments to Schedule 3 are consequential, technical amendments involving the deletion of a superfluous subparagraph in paragraph 5(d).