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Criminal liability. 
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12.—Where a joint investigation team or a part of such a team is operating in the State, seconded members of the team shall— 
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(a) in the case of such seconded members who are members of a police force of another Member State, be regarded as members of the Garda Síochána, and 
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(b) in the case of any other such seconded members, be regarded as members of the team who are not members of the Garda Síochána, 
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with respect to criminal offences committed against them, or by them, in the performance of their functions as such seconded members. 
  
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