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Version status: Amended
Version date: 7 December 2022 - onwards
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61. Amendment of section 33BA of Act of 1942

This format of the bill is taken from the text of stage 1 published on 28 July 2022 by Dáil Éireann

Section 33BA of the Act of 1942 is amended by the insertion of the following subsections after subsection (9):

"(10) The Bank may apply to the High Court for an order referred to in subsection (11) in respect of any person who, at an inquiry -

(a) behaves in a manner referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d) of subsection (9),

(b) without reasonable excuse, fails to comply or refuses to comply with a requirement or request made by the person presiding at the inquiry,

(c) threatens or insults any person presiding at the inquiry or any witness or other person summoned or authorised to attend before the inquiry,

(d) interrupts the proceedings of the inquiry,

(e) discloses, or authorises the disclosure of, evidence given before the inquiry or any of the contents of a document produced at a hearing that the person presiding at an inquiry has directed not to be published,

(f) discloses, or authorises the disclosure of, evidence given before the inquiry at a hearing held in private or any of the contents of a document produced at a hearing held in private (except to a member of staff of that inquiry or as permitted by that inquiry), or

(g) does any other thing that, if the inquiry were a court of law having power to commit for contempt, would be contempt of that court.