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BE LIABLE IMPRISONMENT [2 records]

Record 1 2024-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
CONT

Be liable to imprisonment for not less than three months and not more than three years.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
CONT

Est coupable d'un acte criminel et passible d'un emprisonnement maximal de cinq ans, toute personne qui est en situation d'autorité ou de confiance vis-à-vis d'un adolescent et qui, à des fins d'ordre sexuel, incite l'adolescent à la toucher [Chapitre 19, 3e suppl., Section 150, 1987].

Spanish

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Record 2 2001-07-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sentencing
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Be guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peines
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Commettre un acte criminel et encourir un emprisonnement maximal de sept ans.

Spanish

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