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Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000
Offence of unlawful reception.
371.—A person who receives a broadcast or cable programme to which rights protection measures have been applied, knowing or having reason to believe that it is being received unlawfully with the intent to avoid payment of any charge applied by the rightsowner for the reception of that broadcast or cable programme shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a F171[class C fine].
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F171
Substituted (2.12.2019) by Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Act 2019 (19/2019), s. 46(1) and sch. 2 ref. no. 22, S.I. No. 586 of 2019. A class C fine means a fine not greater than €2,500 as provided (4.01.2011) by Fines Act 2010 (8/2010), ss. 3, 6(1), S.I. No. 662 of 2010.