The phrase "criminal provision" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a specific law or rule that outlines a criminal offense and its associated penalties. Example: The criminal provision for the offense of theft in this state carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. Another example: The new legislation proposed stricter criminal provisions for hate crimes, including harsher penalties for offenders.
"In such circumstances, this criminal provision would, in my view, create an undue chilling effect".
The Violence Against Women Act also has a criminal provision, making it a federal crime to cross state lines to engage in domestic violence or stalking.
Rule 11 was amended in 1979 to provide that the time for appeal of § 2255 motions is governed by Rule 4(a), the civil provision of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, rather than Rule 4(b), the criminal provision.
"This is not a case in which it is merely possible for a court to think of a rational basis on which Congress might have perceived an attenuated link between the powers underlying the federal criminal statutes and the challenged federal criminal provision," Justice Alito added, saying there was in this case at least "a substantial link".
Counts Five and Six charge that when Knox did file such a form on October 14 , 1965 and when he filed a supplemental form the next day, he knowingly and willfully understated the number of employees accepting wagers on his behalfin violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001, a general criminal provision punishing fraudulent statements made to any federal agency.
Representatives Jackie Speier (D-CA) and Gregory Meeks (D-NY) are addressing those limitations by leading Congressional efforts on a federal criminal provision protecting intimate privacy.
An entirely independent criminal provisions of the 1870 Act, § 6, made a far broader sweep.
Sadly, these criminal provisions were dropped by Senators Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Sam Brownback in the trafficking reauthorization bill they recently introduced.
Perhaps it felt hamstrung by the weakness of the criminal provisions of the Mine Safety and Health Act, which are misdemeanors and cover only willful violations of health and safety standards.
(b) The criminal provisions of the Smoke Abatement Code, as applied to appellant's ships, do not impose an undue burden on interstate commerce.
5 Moreover, this interpretation of 'utmost strictness' narrows not only the qui tam aspect of the Act, but also the criminal provisions.
