Maurice Cummins (Fine Gael)

I move amendment No. 47:

In page 9, to delete all words from and including, "or of any" in line 42 down to and including "been convicted," in line 43.

Aspects of section 7(3) are quite remarkable. As drafted it allows the Circuit Court judge to find the person guilty of a charge that the court, in the words of the section "shall substitute a verdict of guilty of the offence charged or of any other offence of which it is satisfied that the person could (by virtue of the charge) and ought to have been convicted,".