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Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2021
- Sponsor
- Minister for Justice
- Introduced
- 23 Feb 2021
- Last updated
- 11 Sep 2024
What this bill does AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Removes mandatory fines and imprisonment requirements for repeat offences under 19th-century laws on stolen goods, illegal distilling, and unlicensed premises.
- Repeals mandatory minimum prison sentences (5-10 years) for second or subsequent firearms and drug trafficking offences.
- Makes consequential changes to eliminate references to removed mandatory penalties in parole eligibility and sentencing law.
Stage timeline What do these stages mean?
- First Stage 33rd Dáil23 Feb 2021
- Second Stage 33rd Dáil28 Apr 2021
- Committee Stage 33rd Dáil28 Apr 2021
- Second Stage 26th Seanad6 Oct 2021
- Report Stage 33rd Dáil6 Oct 2021
- Fifth Stage 33rd Dáil6 Oct 2021
- Committee Stage 26th Seanad3 Nov 2021
- Report Stage 26th Seanad10 Nov 2021
- Fifth Stage 26th Seanad1 Dec 2021
- Enacted8 Dec 2021
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