64.—Section 70 of the Principal Act is hereby amended—

(a) in subsection (2) by the deletion of “not below the rank of Assistant Secretary”, and

(b) by the insertion of the following after subsection (3):

“(4) Nothing in this section shall prevent the prosecution under the Customs Acts for offences committed under the said Acts in respect of a contravention of section 53A of this Act.”,

and the said subsection (2), as so amended, is set out in the Table to this section.

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(2) Subject to section 44(4) of this Act, summary proceedings for any offence under this Act may be prosecuted by a person who is neither the Minister nor a member of the Garda Síochána with the consent of the Minister or an officer of the Minister nominated by the Minister for the purpose.