Sentences with phrase «new criminal offences»

- A new mechanism to prevent the proliferation of unnecessary new criminal offences.

The Bill proposes significant changes to the UK's anti-money laundering laws under POCA, and introduces new criminal offences for failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion.

Despite early enthusiasm for the legislation, Labour ministers have been quick to distance themselves from it, in particular through an almost insatiable appetite for creating new criminal offences.

However, the Coalition government elected in May 2010 accused Labour of having presided over «the most aggressive period of state interference in this country in a generation», typified by such things as ID Cards, the creation of a huge DNA database, and the amassing of thousands of new criminal offences on to the statute book.

We will consider what new criminal offences might need to be created, and what new aggravated offences might need to be established, to defeat the extremists.

That's why Nick Clegg's talk of a «mechanism to block pointless new criminal offences» was so heartening.

One of the main concerns was the enormous number of new criminal offences brought in by Labour.

A series of new tax and transparency laws came into force this year, including the new criminal offence of failing to prevent tax evasion.

This legislation would create a new criminal offence prohibiting the non-consensual distribution of intimate images.

«Some 3,600 new criminal offences have been created in the past 13 years, a rate of about one every weekday.

Jeremy Hunt has NHS staff could face a new criminal offence of wilful neglect of patients as one of a series of measures adopted by the Health Secretary from the Francis report into the deaths at Stafford Hospital.

Today, Conservative MPs have put down amendments calling for the new criminal offences of knowingly making a false claim for an allowance, failing to register a relevant interest and breaking the rules on paid advocacy to be removed from the bill.

None of us are the sort who immediately reach for new criminal offences, but in this case we have been persuaded it is needed.

«Yet umpteen new criminal offences, police powers and other broad laws from parliament have been matched by government targets.

Tax advisers have welcomed the Government's launch of a debate over penalties for offshore tax evasion but expressed concern over proposals for a new criminal offence for those who fail to declare taxable offshore income and gains.

Among the measures proposed are the establishment of an Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority and a new criminal offence outlawing knowingly false expenses claim.

Between 1997 and 2009, 4,289 new criminal offences were created, approximately one for every day the party was in power; and the number continued to increase, rising from 27 new offences a month under Tony Blair, to 33 a month under Gordon Brown.

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.

The provisions activated on 1 April 2007 by the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Commencement No 1)(England and Wales) Order 2007 (SI 2007/563), create the new criminal offence of ill - treatment or wilful neglect (England and Wales) and deal with principles, assessing capacity and determining best interests (ss 1 to 4 — just England) but only in relation to the operation of the independent mental capacity advocate service.

A new criminal offence of «fronting» (or, in colloquial terms, phoney BBBEE) has been introduced and a BBBEE Commission (modelled along similar lines to the South African Competition Commission) has been established.

DVCVA 2004, s 1 inserts a new s 42A into the Pt IV of the Family Law Act 1996, creating a new criminal offence of breaching a non-molestation order.

In its first decade in power, more than 3,000 new criminal offences were created, and a staggering 115,000 pages of legislation added to the statute books.

Clause 70 creates a new criminal offence of misuse of confidential personal information held by the commission as a result of the exercise of its functions.

The creation of new criminal offences has usually been preceded by a public consensus that the conduct to be criminalised is that which the majority of the public regard as nefarious or seriously harmful to the public interest.

As part of this major legislative initiative, the federal government is also proposing a number of changes to the Criminal Code, including creating a new criminal offence with a maximum of 14 years in jail for selling marijuana to a minor.

Compliance will be enforced by the introduction of new criminal offences and a system of statutory restrictions and notices that may be placed on the Land Registry title to a property to prevent an entity without a valid registration from selling, letting or mortgaging its interest in the property.

Lawyers have warned that regulators may take an «aggressive approach», following the Chancellor's proposals for new criminal offences to curb manipulation of the financial markets.

Bills C - 44 and C - 51 envision unprecedented disruptive and secretive powers for CSIS; a new criminal offence of promoting terrorism, in general, which will unquestionably clash with free expression; enhanced information sharing with foreign intelligence agencies; and a broadened sense of national security which extends beyond acts of terrorism into expansive notions of security which include Canada's «financial and economic stability».

With respect to Recommendation 5, a new criminal offence of non-consensual distribution of intimate images, I urge a cautious approach.

This legislation would create a new criminal offence prohibiting the non-consensual distribution of intimate images.

(Between 1997 and 2005 the Blair government enacted more than 3,000 new criminal offences.)

There is no reason why the new criminal offences could not mirror child pornography laws.

The report suggests the creation of a new criminal offence in Canada of «of non-consensual distribution of intimate images, with a maximum penalty of 5 years imprisonment for indictment and 6 months imprisonment on summary conviction.

-- Most troubling, the bill creates a new criminal offence for CSPs or employees who reveal that data has been requested.

Unlike the new criminal offences, the new civil provision is not subject to criminal fines or imprisonment, but gives the Competition Tribunal the power to make remedial orders following successful applications by the bureau.