“official” means an Irish official or a foreign official;
“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister under section 3;
“seized property” shall be construed in accordance with section 20;
“state”, in relation to a state other than the State, includes—
- (a) a territory, whether in the state or outside it, for whose external relations the state or its government is wholly or partly responsible,
- (b) a subdivision of the government of the state, and
- (c) a national, regional or local entity of the state;
“subsidiary” has the meaning it has in section 7 of the Companies Act 2014.
(2) A reference in this Act to an act includes a reference to an omission and a reference in this Act to the commission or doing of an act includes a reference to the making of an omission.
Regulations
3. (1) The Minister may by regulations provide for any matter referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed.
(2) Regulations under this section may contain such incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions as appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the regulations.
(3) Every regulation made by the Minister under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the regulation is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House sits after the regulation is laid before it, the regulation shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.
Repeals
4. The enactments specified in Schedule 2 are repealed to the extent specified in column (3) of that Schedule.
PART 2
Corruption Offences
Active and passive corruption
5. (1) A person who, either directly or indirectly, by himself or herself or with another person—
- (a) corruptly offers, or
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