258A.—(1) A person who, in, or as part of, the name, title, description or styling of a body (whether incorporated or unincorporated), uses the term "Óglaigh na hÉireann" commits an offence.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply where use of the term "Óglaigh na hÉireann" is authorised by law.

(3) A person who is guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a class D fine.

(4) Where an offence under this section is committed by a body corporate or by a person purporting to act on behalf of a body corporate or an unincorporated body of persons and is proved to have been committed with the consent, connivance or approval of, or to have been attributable to any wilful neglect on the part of, any person who, when the offence was committed, was a director, a member of the committee of management or other controlling authority of the body concerned, or the manager, secretary or other officer of the body or a person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, that person, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of an offence and be liable to be proceeded against and punished as if guilty of the first-mentioned offence.]