Where a person has not complied with the above obligations when due, the obligation continues to apply.\u00a0 Where a member of the Oireachtas or holder of a judicial post has not produced a certificate or a statutory declaration in the given year, it is to be noted in the Commission\u2019s annual report.<\/p>\n
The relevant committee, the minister for Justice and Chief Justice, as the case may be, are to be informed.\u00a0 The Commission is subsequently to inform them when the person concerned has complied with the requirements.<\/p>\n
Similar provisions apply to senior public servants who are not in compliance.\u00a0 The head of the relevant public body is notified.<\/p>\n
Tax clearance certificate will be issued for a person who is in compliance with his obligations under the Taxes Act.\u00a0 It confirms that at the date of issue, the relevant obligations have been complied with.\u00a0 Where a person or a partnership of which the person is a member is not in compliance, the certificate is not issued.<\/p>\n
Where a person has sought a tax clearance certificate and the matter is the subject of an appeal, the person is furnished with an application statement to the effect that he has applied for a tax clearance cert and the final decision is pending.<\/p>\n
The maximum penalty under the Statutory Declarations Act 1938 is increased to \u20ac2,540 and a prison sentence of up to six months.<\/p>\n\n
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Commission The Standards in Public Office Act 2001 establishes the Standards in Public Office Commission.\u00a0 It has power in relation to acts and omissions of persons in public life. Complaints may concern alleged acts or omissions which are inconsistent with the proper performance of the relevant functions. The intention was for the Commission to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[363,200],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13246"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31714,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13246\/revisions\/31714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}