Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

These are drafting amendments. Amendment No. 16 is a minor drafting amendment to section 22. It has the effect of replacing "or" with "and" to allow Rules of Court to be made to provide for the expeditious hearing of the retrial applications and of any retrials ordered.

Amendment No. 20 corrects a drafting error in section 26(3), namely, the words ", the legal aid (trial on indictment) certificate" are added after "in respect of the original proceedings".

Amendment No. 23 corrects an error in the lay-out of the text in section 35(1). It moves the words "before the trial begins" to a new line, thus making it clear that whichever of the two options is selected, namely, to return the property to the owner or to dispose of it, it must be done before the trial begins. That was always intended but this alteration in lay-out makes the position much clearer.