Sentence examples for a first offence from inspiring English sources

If the nudists flout the law, they face a $100 fine for a first offence.

Any woman who persists in wearing a facial veil can be fined €150 (£133) for a first offence.

In America, convicted counterfeiters face fines of up to $2m and 10 years in prison for a first offence.

As it was a first offence he wasn't going to prosecute, but he would issue a written caution.

A first offence for a lower-level sanction can lead to loss of benefit for a month.

Chance would be a fine thing – in his pre-professional days Stokes once broke a bone attacking a fire door, so this was not even a first offence.

Of those people convicted of a second offence, 37% were immediately sent to jail.

The 37-year-old rider faces a lifetime ban for a third offence.

A second offence involved reusing data apparently from her doctoral thesis.

Those who are caught once will have their licences suspended; a second offence will put them out of business.

Under the changes, a second property offence carried a mandatory sentence of three months and a third offence of one year.