Any breach of these laws is a criminal offence and can lead to fine of up to £ 5, 000 or six months in prison.

Assault is an offence under s. 266 of the Criminal Code of Canada.

This public interest is usually satisfied by preventing a continuation or repetition of the offence on the same victim.

* Assault: The offence is defined by section 265 of the Code.

A person is guilty of this offence if he unlawfully offers or attempts, with force or violence, to strike, beat, wound, or do bodily harm to, another.

; Piracy with violence: Section 2 of the Piracy Act 1837 provides that it is an offence, amongst other things, for a person, with intent to commit or at the time of or immediately before or immediately after committing the crime of piracy in respect of any ship or vessel, to assault, with intent to murder, any person being on board of or belonging to such ship or vessel.

; Assault on an officer of Revenue and Customs: This offence is created by section 32 ( 1 ) of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005.

; Assaulting an immigration officer: This offence is created by section 22 ( 1 ) of the UK Borders Act 2007.

; Assaulting a person designated under section 43 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005: This offence is created by section 51 ( 1 ) of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.

; Assaulting a member of an international joint investigation team: This offence is created by section 57 ( 2 ) of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.

Section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 provides that common assault, like battery, is triable only in the magistrates ' court in England and Wales ( unless it is linked to a more serious offence, which is triable in the Crown Court ).

; Assault occasioning actual bodily harm: The offence of assault occasioning actual bodily harm is created by section 47 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861.

; Racially or religiously aggravated common assault: This offence is created by section 29 ( 1 )( c ) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.

; Racially or religiously aggravated assault occasioning actual bodily harm: This offence is created by section 29 ( 1 )( b ) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.

; Assault with intent to resist arrest: The offence of assault with intent to resist arrest is created by section 38 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861.

; Assault on a constable in the execution of his duty: Section 89 ( 1 ) of the Police Act 1996 provides that it is an offence for a person to assault either:

; Assaulting a traffic officer: This offence is created by section 10 ( 1 ) of the Traffic Management Act 2004.

; Assaulting a person designated or accredited under sections 38 or 39 or 41 or 41A of the Police Reform Act 2002: This offence is created by section 46 ( 1 ) of the Police Reform Act 2002.

; Assault on a prison custody officer: This offence is created by section 90 ( 1 ) of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 ( c. 53 ).

; Assault on a secure training centre custody officer: This offence is created by section 13 ( 1 ) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 ( c. 33 ).

; Assault on officer saving wreck: This offence is created by section 37 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861.

; Assaulting an officer of the court: This offence is created by section 14 ( 1 )( b ) of the County Courts Act 1984.

; Cruelty to persons under sixteen: Section 1 ( 1 ) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 provides that it is an offence for a person who has attained the age of sixteen years, and who has responsibility for a child or young person under that age, to, amongst other things, wilfully assault that child or young person, or to cause or procure that child or young person to be assaulted, in a manner likely to cause him unnecessary suffering or injury to health.

On 27 April 1993 Irving was ordered to attend court to be examined on charges relating to the Loi Gayssot in France, making it an offence to question the existence or size of the category of crimes against humanity.

Nevertheless, the articulation of " crimes of humanity " as a distinct category of offence expressly differentiated from " war crimes " was a new development.

If the offence cannot be assigned to either preceding category, then it will be indecent if it can be shown that the accused thought it indecent.

Such issues include marriage of clergy, which Jewel allows ( II. 9 ); sacerdotalism, a category of offence which would include, for example, making the mass a sacrifice ; veneration of saints, which the Apology denounces ( II. 20 ); private absolution, which it denies ( II. 8 ); and the language of the mass, which Jewel says should be in the vernacular ( II. 19 ).

: he overall regulatory pattern adopted by the legislature, the subject matter of the legislation, the importance of the penalty and the precision of the language used will be primary considerations in determining whether the offence falls into the third category.

In England and Wales, the category " arrestable offence " ceased to exist with the advent on 1 January 2006 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act.

With the increasing number of newly created offences being included in Schedule 1A and thus being made arrestable, the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 abolished the category of arrestable offence, replacing the dual rules with a single set of criteria for all offences.

Another issue which has arisen is the accuracy of a description of an offence as being in a category exempt from the requirement for correspondence, and whether the executing judicial authority is required to accept the issuing judicial authority's classification as definitive.

Theft is a statutory offence, created by section 4 ( 1 ) of the Criminal Justice ( Theft and Fraud Offences ) Act, 2001.

* an offence under section 4 of the Public Order Act 1986 might be committed if the blackmailer intends to cause the person threatened to believe that immediate unlawful violence will be used against him or another or if the person threatened is likely to believe that such violence will be used

Section 87 ( 3 ) provides that a person guilty of blackmail is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to level 4 imprisonment ( 15 years maximum ).

Whitehouse's supporters have asserted that the Whitehouse campaigns helped end Channel 4's " red triangle " series of films in 1986 ; claimed by Channel 4 to be intended to warn viewers of material liable to cause offence, the broadcasting of these films with the triangle had also received criticism from non-supporters of Whitehouse.

Article 10 ( 1 ) grants freedom of speech, the right to assemble peaceably and the right to form associations to every Malaysian citizen but such freedom and rights are not absolute: the Constitution itself, by Article 10 ( 2 ), ( 3 ) and ( 4 ), expressly permits Parliament by law to impose restrictions in the interest of the security of the Federation, friendly relations with other countries, public order, morality, to protect the privileges of Parliament, to provide against contempt of court, defamation, or incitement to any offence.

: shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction in the case of a first offence to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale or to both such imprisonment and fine, and in the case of a second or subsequent offence to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale or to both such imprisonment and fine.

She was initially arrested under section 4 of the Vagrancy Act 1824, a minor offence tried by magistrates.

The ITC harshly criticised Channel 4 for the remark ; the station later broadcast a statement saying they considered the comment to be " completely unacceptable " and apologised for any offence caused.

Thus meaning Schumacher was punished 4 times for one offence, which in the grand scheme of things could be considered harsh for such an insignificant offence were it not for Benetton's refusal to accept the penalties handed out.

The offence has previously been applied to individual defendants but following the collapse of a trial brought against Transco following the deaths of 4 people in a gas explosion in Larkhall in 1999 and other fatal events involving corporate bodies the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 has introduced a new statutory offence of corporate homicide into Scots Law.

4. And be it further enacted, That if any person, by force, bribery, threats, intimidation, or other unlawful means, shall hinder, delay, prevent, or obstruct, or shall combine and confederate with others to hinder, delay, prevent, or obstruct, any citizen from doing any act required to be done to qualify him to vote or from voting at any election as aforesaid, such person shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby, to be recovered by an action on the case, with full costs, and such allowance for counsel fees as the court shall deem just, and shall also for every such offence be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not less than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not less than one month and not more than one year, or both, at the discretion of the court .”

However, in 2003 a new ' two strikes ' law was enacted ( effective April 4, 2005 ), requiring courts to presume that a criminal who commits his second violent or dangerous offence deserves a life sentence unless the judge is satisfied that the defendant is not a danger to the public.

The last person to be executed under the Treachery Act was Briton Theodore Schurch, executed on 4 January 1946, who was the last person to be executed in the United Kingdom for an offence other than murder.

He was sent off after 60 minutes of the famous 1 – 0 win over Spain in Valencia, for the offence of shoving Spain's José Antonio Camacho, but returned for Northern Ireland's final match, the 4 – 1 defeat by France in Madrid.

The offence of soliciting to murder is created by section 4 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861.

" In this case, criminal charges were not pursued against Mr. Vizard because the DPP was not satisfied that there was admissible, substantial and reliable evidence of the offence and therefore there were not reasonable prospects of securing a conviction … Whilst this was a decision for the DPP, it was also consistent with senior counsel advice that ASIC had independently received .... When ASIC announced on 4 July that we were pursuing civil penalties against Mr. Vizard, there were some suggestions in the press that we had gone soft or that we had somehow been nobbled by government.