technology, or any combination thereof, to store or transmit data or both to store and transmit data.
Intimidation
10. (1) A person who, either directly or indirectly, by himself or herself or with another person, threatens harm to a person with the intention of corruptly influencing that person or another person to do an act in relation to the person’s office, employment, position or business shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) In this section “harm” includes loss, disadvantage or injury of any kind.
PART 3
Corruption Occurring Partly in or outside State
Corruption occurring partly in State
11. A person may be tried in the State for an offence under this Act if any one or more of the acts alleged to constitute the offence were committed—
- (a) in the State,
- (b) on board an Irish ship within the meaning of section 33 of the Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Act 2014, or
- (c) on an aircraft registered in the State,
notwithstanding that the other acts alleged to constitute the offence were committed outside the State.
Corruption occurring outside State
12. (1) Subject to subsection (2), where a person (in this section referred to as the “person concerned”) does an act in a place outside the State that, if done in the State, would constitute an offence under—
- (a) section 5, 6, 7, 8 or 18(1), or
- (b) section 9 concerning the creation or use of a false accounting, auditing or financial document,
the person concerned shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to the penalty to which the person concerned would have been liable if the person concerned had done that act in the State.
(2) Subsection (1) shall apply where—
- (a) the act is committed on board an Irish ship within the meaning of section 33 of the Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Act 2014,
- (b) the act is committed on an aircraft registered in the State, or
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