The European single market was completed on 1 January 1993.\u00a0 An integral part of the single market was the removal of controls on capital.\u00a0 The exchange control legislation was allowed lapse. The Financial Transfers Act was passed to deal with occasional emergency controls on transfer.<\/p>\n
The legislation allows the Minister to restrict financial transfers between the state and another country.\u00a0 And order must be in conformity with the European Union legislation and on such terms may be as prescribed.<\/p>\n
Contravention of the legislation is an offence.\u00a0 A person guilty of an offence is subject on summary conviction to a fine of \u20ac1270 or up to 12 months imprisonment or both.\u00a0 A fine on indictment is \u20ac1,270,000 or twice the capital of the convicted entitiy, in respect of which the offense is committed or 10 years imprisonment, whichever is greater.<\/p>\n
In practice the use of legislation has been made in the case of sanctions imposed by the EU against various countries for political reasons as part of the international scheme of sanctions.<\/p>\n
Ireland imposed exchange controls on the United Kingdom in 1979 when the Irish pound broke from sterling.<\/p>\n\n
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