The 2015 Act provides for the operation of a special intervention unit. It \u00a0will be established for a specific purpose and limited time period as agreed by the competent authorities. The \u00a0special intervention unit may operate in this State or in the other member state for so long as is necessary.<\/p>\n
The 2015 Act provides for the competent authority to terminate assistance once the intended purpose of the crisis intervention unit has been served. A crisis intervention unit operating in this State shall do so under the direction and control of the Garda Commissioner, in accordance with the laws of the State and within the limits of powers conferred by its own state.<\/p>\n
The \u00a0Minister may designate a Eurojust national member who may transmit and receive information in accordance with Council Decision 2009\/426\/JHA.<\/p>\n
Criminal Justice Act 1994 provides for compensation to be payable to persons affected by any serious default on behalf of the State arising from a domestic confiscation of property. This 2015 Act extends the compensation provisions of section 65 of the 1994 Act to include compensation for serious default by the State in executing an external confiscation order, external freezing order or external forfeiture order.<\/p>\n
The 2015 Act amends the Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na Act 2005 to give effect to the Council Decision 2008\/617\/11 on enhancing the operation of special intervention units in crisis situations and to provide that an Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na may participate in special intervention units.<\/p>\n\n
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Background The Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Act 2015 amends the Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Act 2008 to give effect to the following international instruments which have been ratified by the Oireachtas and which provide for mutual legal assistance with other EU member states: \u2022\u00a0 Council Framework Decision 2005\/214\/JHA on mutual recognition of financial penalties. This […]<\/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":[173],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22294"}],"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=22294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22296,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22294\/revisions\/22296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}