Number 36 of 2007

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2007

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1. Amendment of Criminal Procedure Act 1967.

2. Short title.

Acts Referred to

Number 36 of 2007

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2007

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 1967.

[25th October, 2007]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:

Amendment of Criminal Procedure Act 1967.

1.— Section 22 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1967 is amended by—

(a) the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3) (inserted by section 18 (b) of the Criminal Justice Act 2007 ):

“(3) A recognisance to which subsection (2) applies may be taken by—

(a) any judge of the District Court,

(b) any District Court clerk,

(c) a peace commissioner designated for that purpose by order of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform,

(d) the governor of a prison, or

(e) a prison officer designated for that purpose by the governor of a prison.”,

and

(b) the insertion of the following subsection:

“(5) In this section ‘ prison ’ has the same meaning as it has in the Prisons Act 2007 .”.

Short title.

2.— This Act may be cited as the Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act 2007.