Sentences with phrase «life imprisonment offence»

Class A: Maximum: Life imprisonment Offence range: Community order — 16 years» custody Class B: Maximum: 14 years» custody and / or unlimited fine Offence range: Fine — 10 years» custody Class C: Maximum: 14 years» custody and / or unlimited fine Offence range: Fine — 8 years» custody

Class A Maximum: Life imprisonment Offence range: Community order — 16 years» Class B: Maximum: 14 years» custody Offence range: Discharge — 10 years» custody Class C: Maximum: 14 years» custody Offence range: Discharge — 8 years» custody

Class A: Maximum: Life imprisonment Offence range: 3 years 6 months — 16 years» custody Class B: Maximum: 14 years» custody and / or unlimited fine Offence range: 12 weeks to 10 years» custody Class C: Maximum: 14 years» custody and / or unlimited fine Offence range: Community order — 8 years» custody

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The Offences Against the Person Act of 1861 made abortion a criminal offence punishable by imprisonment from three years to life.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Section 287 stipulates three - year jail term for offenders, while kidnapping offences in Lagos State attract a penalty of life imprisonment or capital punishment.

Writing in this week's NLJ, Bindman says the home secretary's Modern Slavery Bill consolidates existing laws and imposes tougher sentences for offences, including potential life imprisonment for kidnapping and false imprisonment.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment for these offences.

Unless we start sentencing every offender to life imprisonment for every offence, we have to deal with the reality that virtually every single custodial inmate will eventually return to society (most of them in relatively short order).

The offence will carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment for some categories of cyberattack.

Moreover, illegally disclosing data about an individual's private life by a person who has had access to such data in the exercise of his duties, constitutes a criminal offence sanctioned by imprisonment or a criminal fine.

As for the significance of choking as an aggravating factor, Justice Graesser noted that as a separate offence, it is subject to a maximum sentence of life imprisonment under section 246 (a) of the Criminal Code.

For an offence other than those punishable with the death penalty, life imprisonment, or with a minimum punishment of imprisonment for not less than three years, the prosecutor may render a deferred prosecution after considering the public interest if a deferred prosecution is appropriate.

Causing death by criminal negligence (street racing) 249.2 Everyone who by criminal negligence causes death to another person while street racing is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for life.

If convicted under s. 220 (b), 249.2 and 249.3 a discharge is not available under s. 730 (1) as it is «an offence for which a minimum punishment is prescribed by law or an offence punishable by imprisonment for fourteen years or for life».

Section 15 (1) substitutes a new para 6 of Pt 1 of Sch 1, BA 1976 and provides that if defendants are 18 years or over and it appears to the court that, having been released on bail in or in connection with the proceedings for an offence that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, they failed to surrender to custody, they may not be granted bail unless the court is satisfied that there is no significant risk that, if released on bail, they would fail to surrender to custody.

This paragraph provides that if defendants are 18 years or over and it appears that they committed an offence that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment while on bail in criminal proceedings, they may not be granted bail unless the court is satisfied that there is no significant risk of their committing an offence while on bail.

(1) Every person is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to a term of imprisonment for life who (a) carries out a nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion for the purpose of developing qualitative improvements in nuclear weapons or developing new types of nuclear weapons...

(a) where a firearm is used in the commission of the offence, to imprisonment for life and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of four years; and (b) in any other case, to imprisonment for life.