Example sentences of "' imprisonment or " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | It is punishable by a maximum of 14 years ' imprisonment or a fine or both . |
| 2 | The importance which the legislature attached to the observance of the regulatory system is demonstrated by section 4 , which makes a contravention of section 3 an offence , punishable on conviction on indictment by a term of two years ' imprisonment or a fine or both . |
| 3 | By contrast , a person who organises a procession or a meeting and knowingly fails to comply with the conditions imposed commits an offence punishable with three months ' imprisonment or a level three fine . |
| 4 | In Scotland , the penalty for a summary offence is three months ' imprisonment or a fine , but not both . |
| 5 | The maximum penalty is two years ' imprisonment or an unlimited fine . |
| 6 | In June 1989 the government refused to grant the fundamentalist Islamic Nahdah movement ( Mouvement de la renaissance ) legal recognition as a political party , on the grounds that by law founders and leaders of parties must not have been convicted of offences warranting more than three months ' imprisonment or six months ' suspended sentence ; 15 Nahdah leaders , although at liberty , still had current convictions dating from September 1987 ( see p. 36633 ) . |
| 7 | The leniency of Kanemaru 's treatment was highlighted when , on the same day , Kiyoshi Kaneko was charged with falsely reporting a donation , an indictment which involved a public trial and carried a penalty of five years ' imprisonment or a fine of 300,000 yen . |