Sentences with phrase «became criminal offences»

If that happens, failure to meet standards could lead to demands to attend some formal schooling, and failure to register could become a criminal offence, with inspectors able to enter family homes and interrogate children without parents or other adults being present.

The «Sexual Orientations Regulations» currently being pushed through parliament could mean that teaching that homosexual practises are «a sin crying out to heaven», rather than a human right, becomes a criminal offence.

Breaching these would become a criminal offence.

A verbal assault against armed forces personnel and their relatives could become a criminal offence if Labour gets into government.

Causing death or harm to a patient should become a criminal offence, gagging clauses should be banned and only those registered to do so should care for patients.

(The Guardian, Sexist remarks and wolf - whistles could become criminal offences)

The Defined Benefit Pension Schemes white paper, published 19 March, has announced that «wilful or reckless behaviour in the handling of company pension funds» may become a criminal offence, punishable of up to two years in prison.

This news was quickly followed by a short piece on the new squatting law which comes into force tomorrow — squatting becomes a criminal offence.

It also says children should have more say in divorce proceedings and that it should become a criminal offence for any parent unreasonably to refuse the other parent access to a child.

Not exact matches

There was one new offence for every day Tony Blair was in office and the passing of a criminal justice bill became a de facto annual event.

«The Prime Minister announced at a reception last week that stalking was to become a specific criminal offence.

«If you read Section 3 of the Criminal Offences Act, the definition of a public officer includes a potential public officer, so when the President nominated me and announced it to the whole world, I became a potential public officer, recognized under the Criminal code as a public officer, so as far as I am concerned, since that day, I am neutral, and that is why you have not heard my voice over the air saying anything because I am coming to an office which has to be neutral and impartial.

Accidental Death does not include death which is caused directly or indirectly by one or more of the following causes: sickness, illness or bodily or mental infirmity or disease of any kind; suicide or self - inflicted injury while sane or insane; declared or undeclared war or any act of war, riot or insurrection, or service in the armed forces; any event directly or indirectly related to the ingestion of alcohol by you where the concentration of alcohol in your blood exceeds 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 milliliters of blood; voluntary ingestion of poison, toxic substances or non-toxic substances or drugs, sedatives or narcotics (whether illicit or prescribed) in such quantity that they become toxic, or voluntary inhalation of a gas; from or while committing or attempting to commit a criminal offence, or committing or provoking an assault; medical or surgical treatment or complications arising therefrom, except when required as a direct result of an accidental bodily injury; participating in a contest of speed, scuba diving, skydiving, parachuting, hang gliding or bungee jumping, or a flight accident except when travelling as a passenger on a commercially licensed airline.

Ironically, the Member States which will not participate could become new safe havens for criminals who wish to commit offences against the EU's financial interests...

When you have been charged with a criminal offence, that information becomes part of the public record.

The British fear underlying the offence accompanied it to Canada: an 1857 Montreal newspaper article decrying the «immense development of rascality» in the criminal classes told readers (wrongly) that garrotting had become such a plague that terrified pedestrians had taken to walking the streets in spiked iron collars.

Instead it provides that the Directive is applicable once an individual is suspected or accused of a criminal offence, and it is applicable to all stages of the criminal proceedings, until the decision on the final determination of whether the person has committed the criminal offence becomes definitive.

But, the reality is that many criminal lawyers handling driving offences become extremely adept in that field.

Sometimes, an insured person who holds such a «D&O» policy and who has become the target of an allegation that in the course of their employment they committed a criminal offence, has had a nasty surprise when they have notified their claim and requested that their criminal lawyers» fees be paid.

I was charged with a Sexual Assault, I became aware that if I received a criminal record for this offence, I would be removed from Canada.

Between elections they may, for example, become disqualified and lose their seat if convicted of an offence under the Criminal Code of Canada or for failing to declare a conflict of personal interest under the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act.

But ratifying CAT did not, by itself, make torture criminal or punishable under domestic US criminal law; the US simply became obligated to «ensure that all acts of torture [we] re offences under its criminal law» (art. 4).

Accidental Death does not include death which is caused directly or indirectly by one or more of the following causes: sickness, illness or bodily or mental infirmity or disease of any kind; suicide or self - inflicted injury while sane or insane; declared or undeclared war or any act of war, riot or insurrection, or service in the armed forces; any event directly or indirectly related to the ingestion of alcohol by you where the concentration of alcohol in your blood exceeds 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 milliliters of blood; voluntary ingestion of poison, toxic substances or non-toxic substances or drugs, sedatives or narcotics (whether illicit or prescribed) in such quantity that they become toxic, or voluntary inhalation of a gas; from or while committing or attempting to commit a criminal offence, or committing or provoking an assault; medical or surgical treatment or complications arising therefrom, except when required as a direct result of an accidental bodily injury; participating in a contest of speed, scuba diving, skydiving, parachuting, hang gliding or bungee jumping, or a flight accident except when travelling as a passenger on a commercially licensed airline.

Criminal convictions become «spent» after a certain period of time, which varies depending on the sentence for the offence.