Sentences with phrase «made criminal offences»

And paid advocacy and failing to register financial interests, which could have been made criminal offences, are not.

Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse - the nation's highest form of inquiry - recommended that all states and territories in Australia introduce legislation which would make it a criminal offence for people to fail to report child sexual abuse in an institutional setting.

The police did attempt to prosecute some cases under the 1929 Childrens act which makes it a criminal offence to be responsible for the care of a child under 3 whilst intoxicated.

But however that works in practice, it is significant that the Bill does not make a criminal offence of possession.

Indeed, until it was reformed in 1989, Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 made it a criminal offence for any civil servant or public contractor to reveal any information he or she had learned in the course of his or her work: an offence that successive governments continued to prosecute well into the 1980s, despite recommendations published in 1972 by the Franks Committee calling for reform.

Making it a criminal offence for seven people to be on a picket line is a waste of police time and not something you would expect in a country with a proud tradition of liberty.

The DCMS is set to publish a communications bill next year which could update provisions in the Digital Economy Act 2010, which makes it a criminal offence to send «a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character».

It includes provisions for the creation of an Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority and makes it a criminal offence to submit a false expenses claim.

A Labour government will make it a criminal offence to use low - skilled European workers to undercut local workers and businesses, and change the rules so that more foreign national criminals are considered for deportation, the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has said.

This makes it a criminal offence to harass people and put «people in fear of violence».

This makes it a criminal offence to deliberately cause «harassment, alarm or distress» by using «threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour».

A survey of 1,000 vets carried out by leading feline welfare charity Cats Protection shows that many more cats are killed in air gun attacks than 20 years ago, prompting a call on governments in England and Wales to make it a criminal offence to own an air gun without a licence or permit.

«Non-payment of confiscation orders for proceeds of crime should be made a criminal offence, an influential group of MPs said today — and no convicted offender -LSB-...]

«Non-payment of confiscation orders for proceeds of crime should be made a criminal offence, an influential group of MPs said today — and no convicted offender should be allowed to leave prison without satisfying their confiscation order.

For example, the evasion of foreign tax laws was elevated to a predicate offence under Singapore AML Laws in September 2014 which makes it a criminal offence under Singapore law to assist a person in the evasion of foreign tax laws or to handle proceeds stemming from foreign tax evasion.

Section 45 (1)(b) makes it a criminal offence for two or more competitors to allocate sales, territories, customers or markets for the production or supply of a product.

The Administration of Justice Act 1970, s 40 makes it a criminal offence to harass a debtor and the Malicious Communications Act 1988 (MCA 1988) criminalises the sending of a threatening letter if its purpose is to cause distress or anxiety to the recipient.

Section 348 of the Criminal Code makes it a criminal offence to break and enter into a dwelling house or any other building.

Among other things, it would make it a criminal offence punishable by fines up to $ 100,000 to modify software in motor vehicles, whether to repair them or otherwise, without authorization.

Section 4 of the CDSA makes it a criminal offence to possess any of the substances listed in Schedules I, II or III.

So they persuaded the government to make it a criminal offence not to join by a little ruse of making you pay a fee for your practising certificate.

Chancellor George Osborne announced plans this week in his Mansion House speech to tackle rogue traders, extending existing LIBOR legislation to make it a criminal offence to rig the foreign exchange, fixed income and commodities benchmarks.

Generally, the Criminal Code makes it a criminal offence to operate illegal lotteries, as defined and set out by the offences under section 206.

The Home Office intends to make it a criminal offence to operate as a private investigator without a licence next year, with penalties of up to # 5,000 and six months in prison.

The Competition Act makes it a criminal offence for two or more bidders, in response to a call or request for bids or tenders, to secretly agree that one party will refrain from bidding, or to agree on the bids they will submit, without informing the party issuing the call for bids of these arrangements.

If enacted, the Act will provide that no person shall knowingly represent or advise a person for consideration — or offer to do so — in connection with an immigration proceeding or application unless the person is a lawyer that is a member in good standing of a provincial or territorial law society, or a member of a body designated by the government, effectively making it a criminal offence to operate as an unlicensed immigration consultant.

Peaker said the move was simply «headline - grabbing», as section 7 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 already protects homeowners and makes it a criminal offence for a squatter to remain in a property once asked to leave by the owner.

Not exact matches

Schools have responded by amending anti-bullying codes to include cyberbullying in their social media policies, anyone who makes threats to a child on the internet could be committing a criminal offence.

The commission's recommendations, which with interim reports total 409, include making failure to report child abuse a criminal offence.

A lawyer representing the group said Islamic Sharia law, which views apostasy as a criminal offence, makes no provision for those wanting to leave the faith.

The bill will, for example, make organising the 2014 annual TUC Congress or organising a TUC national demonstration in the 12 months before the 2015 general election criminal offences.

Touching on the emergence and activities of vigilante groups, he said people who committed criminal offences should be made to face the full rigours of the law irrespective of their status in society.

These things could only make a form of twisted sense if we, as a country, had come to see migration itself as a criminal offence.

Upon his fresh arraignment which took place on 28th December 2016 Fagboyinbo made the court to know that «Adesina Olajide on the 19th of October 2016 at about 12 mid night, at Ofatedo area in Osogbo did break and entered into dwelling house of Egunlola Adewumi Christiana with intent to commit felony and stealing and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 411 (1) of the criminal code 34 vol.

His government proposes to make «illegal working» a criminal offence in a forthcoming Immigration Bill: the tenth piece of such legislation in the past 20 years.

PRNigeria gathered that the Federal Government was infuriated by the action of Magu in engaging Keyamo as a private counsel to prosecute the CCT boss in purported corruption charge because, the same Keyamo is the counsel to Rasheed Taiwo Owolabi who is standing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal and who made the allegation in the course of his trial on criminal offence.

And it will create a criminal offence for MPs to knowingly make a false claim for an allowance, fail without reasonable excuse to register a relevant interest and contravene without reasonable excuse the rules on paid advocacy.

• The definition of an antique firearm — which makes the current guidance statutory, • A new offence, targeted at criminals, of the possession of articles with intent to convert an imitation into a working firearm.

- Measures to make the import or possession of illegal timber a criminal offence.

In our view, the Government and HMRC really need to make it clear what the public policy rationale is for the corporate evasion criminal offence in light of the recent ministerial statement.

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

a) is of good character as attested to by two Ghanaians who are notaries public, lawyers, senior public officers or other class of persons approved of by the Minister; b) has not been convicted of any criminal offence and been sentenced to imprisonment for a term of twelve months or more; c) is of independent means; d) is in the opinion of the Minister capable of making a substantial contribution to the development of Ghana; and e) has attained the age of eighteen years.

She said the Commission will «refer the matter of the possible forgeries of these signatures to the Ghana Police Service and the Attorney General for investigation and prosecution in line with the following sections of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29): Section 211: Perjury Section 248: making false declaration etc. for office or voting; Section 251: Deceiving a public officer Section 256: Corruption, Intimidation and impersonation in respect of election.»

Making Blacklisting a Criminal Offence.

Making blacklisting a criminal offence and introducing a compensation scheme for blacklisted workers funded by the blacklisting companies would help in righting this wrong.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt told ITV News he will consider Professor Don Berwick's proposal that a new criminal offence for «wilful neglect» should be made law.

According to the State Attorney, the Chinese made false representation contrary to section 23 (1) of the criminal offences Act,...

A referral to the CPS is made when the IPCC investigation indicates that a criminal offence may have been committed.

The governor, who spoke through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said Aluko was already beclouded by his desperation to seek revenge against him because of his refusal to make him his Chief of Staff, such that he (Aluko) was not mindful of committing the criminal offence of perjury.

This explains observations made, for instance, in the USA: according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, cyclical changes in the frequency of criminal offences can be found in several American states.