Betting (Amendment) Act 2015
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Administrative cooperation | ||
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31. The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section: | ||
“32E. (1) (a) The Revenue Commissioners shall inform the Minister for Justice and Equality of any offence under section 1078 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 of which an applicant for a certificate of personal fitness stands convicted, upon receiving a request in writing in that behalf from that Minister of the Government. | ||
(b) The Revenue Commissioners shall inform a Superintendent of the Garda Síochána to whom an application under section 4 is made of any offence under section 1078 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 of which the person making the application stands convicted, upon receiving a request in writing in that behalf from that Superintendent. | ||
(c) The Garda Síochána shall provide the Minister for Justice and Equality with all such information as that Minister of the Government may reasonably require for the purposes of the performance by him of functions under this Act, upon receiving a request in writing in that behalf from that Minister of the Government. | ||
(2) The Minister for Justice and Equality may enter into an arrangement with a foreign statutory body whereby— | ||
(a) the Minister for Justice and Equality agrees to furnish to the foreign statutory body information in his possession that is required by the foreign statutory body for the purposes of the performance by it of functions under the law of a place other than the State that are the same as or similar to the functions performed by the Minister for Justice and Equality under this Act, and | ||
(b) the foreign statutory body agrees to furnish to the Minister for Justice and Equality information in its possession that is required by the Minister for Justice and Equality for the purposes of the performance by him of functions under this Act. | ||
(3) The Minister for Justice and Equality shall not furnish any information to a foreign statutory body pursuant to an arrangement to which this section applies unless it requires of, and obtains from, that body an undertaking in writing by it that it will— | ||
(a) not use that information or disclose that information to any other person other than for the purposes of the performance of functions that are the same as or similar to the functions of the Minister for Justice and Equality or the Revenue Commissioners under this Act, and | ||
(b) comply with the other terms specified in that requirement. | ||
(4) The Minister for Justice and Equality may give an undertaking to a foreign statutory body that he will comply with any terms specified in a requirement made of him by the body relating to the use or disclosure by him of that information where compliance with the requirement is a condition imposed by the body for furnishing information to him pursuant to an arrangement to which this section applies. | ||
(5) An arrangement under this section shall not operate to require the Minister for Justice and Equality to provide information to a foreign statutory body if the disclosure of that information by the Minister for Justice and Equality is prohibited by law. | ||
(6) In this section ‘foreign statutory body’ means a person who under the law of a place other than the State performs in that place functions that are the same as or similar to those performed by the Minister for Justice and Equality or the Revenue Commissioners under this Act or any other enactment.”. |