The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section:

"7D.

(1) An individual shall, when making an application for a certificate of personal fitness, notify the Superintendent of the Garda Síochána concerned or the Minister for Justice and Equality, as may be appropriate, in writing of -

(a) any offence referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 6 (inserted by section 12 of the Betting (Amendment) Act 2015) of which he, or a body corporate of which he is a relevant officer, has been convicted, or

(b) any offence of which he, or a body corporate of which he is a relevant officer, has been convicted in a place other than the State consisting of an act or omission that, if done or omitted to be done in the State, would, under the law of the State, constitute an offence referred to in the said paragraph (a).

(2) An individual to whom a certificate of personal fitness has been issued shall notify the Minister for Justice and Equality in writing of -

(a) any offence referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 6 of which he has been convicted, or

(b) any offence of which he has been convicted under the law of a place other than the State consisting of an act or omission that, if done or omitted to be done in the State, would, under the law of the State, constitute an offence referred to in the said paragraph (a).