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dodgy tax disc?

  • 25-06-2012 8:02pm
    #1
    rob6970
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭


    heard from a friend in work that his mate got caught with a fake tax disc in his car by the guards any idea of the penalties for this?


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  • #2
    keithsfleet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,072 ✭✭✭keithsfleet


    Car taken off him there and then for not having relevant motor tax and a fine handed down in court would be my guess.


  • #3
    source
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭source


    It will be prosecuted as fraud, Section 26 Criminal Justice (Theft And Fraud Offences) Act 2001, using a false instrument.
    26.—(1) A person who uses an instrument which is, and which he or she knows or believes to be, a false instrument, with the intention of inducing another person to accept it as genuine and, by reason of so accepting it, to do some act, or to make some omission, or to provide some service, to the prejudice of that person or any other person is guilty of an offence.

    (2) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on conviction on indictment to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years or both.

    This would however be on the lower end of the scale, so I would expect a large fine.


  • #4
    Delancey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭Delancey


    A heavy fine at least . Far better to be caught with no disc than a fake one or one belonging to another vehicle.


  • #5
    Del2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,102 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    Delancey wrote: »
    A heavy fine at least . Far better to be caught with no disc than a fake one or one belonging to another vehicle.

    +1.

    I was stopped at a checkpoint on the bike recently and they had a car driver pulled over. As they where checking my licence I heard another Garda telling the car driver they'd have been in less trouble if they had no disc on display than whatever he had on the screen, I assume it was from another car.


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