[2001.] Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act, 2001. [No. 50.] on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,500 or imprison- Pt.9 S.59 ment for a term not exceeding 12 months or both. 60.—(1) For the purposes of any provision of this Act relating to specified conduct outside the State— Evidence in proceedings. (a) a document purporting to be signed by a lawyer practising in the state or a territorial unit within it where the conduct is alleged to have occurred and stating that the conduct is an offence under the law of that state or territorial unit, and (b) a document purporting to be a translation of a document mentioned in paragraph (a) and to be certified as correct by a person appearing to be competent to so certify, shall be admissible in any proceedings, without further proof, as evidence of the matters mentioned in those documents, unless the contrary is shown. (2) For the purposes of section 45 a document purporting to be signed by an officer of the Department of Foreign Affairs and stating that a passport was issued by the Department to a specified person on a specified date and that, to the best of the officer’s knowledge and belief, the person has not ceased to be an Irish citizen shall be admissible in any proceedings, without further proof, as evidence that the person was an Irish citizen on the date on which the offence under that section with which the person is charged was committed, unless the contrary is shown. 61.—For the purposes of the exercise of jurisdiction by a judge of the District Court in proceedings for an offence under this Act committed on a vessel or hovercraft or on an installation in the territorial seas or in a designated area (within the meaning of the Continental Shelf Act, 1968) the offence may be treated as having been committed in any place in the State. Jurisdiction of District Court in certain proceedings. 62.—Section 9 of the Married Women’s Status Act, 1957, is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (3) of the following subsection: Amendment of section 9 of Married Women’s Status Act, 1957. ‘‘(3) No criminal proceedings referred to in subsection (1) or (2) shall be taken by a spouse against the other spouse except by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions.’’. 63.—The Defence Act, 1954, is hereby amended by the substitution for section 156 (as substituted by the Larceny Act, 1990) of the following section: ‘‘156.—(1) Every person subject to military law who— (a) steals or otherwise unlawfully obtains any property belonging to a person subject to military law or any public service property or service property, or (b) handles or possesses (within the meaning of section 17 or 18 of the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act, 2001) any such property, 45 Amendment of Defence Act, 1954.