Sentence examples for statutory offence from inspiring English sources

"The statutory offence relates to a commonwealth officer disclosing commonwealth information without authorisation," a spokesman told Guardian Australia.

Common law riot was abolished by the Public Order Act 1986 when a new statutory offence of riot was created.

There is currently no specific statutory offence of domestic violence.

Indeed, corrupting public morals may have become a statutory offence; the situation is unclear.

Although R v Little considered assault a statutory offence, none of the statutes referred to contain any definition of assault.

A third category which existed at the time of the 1977 Act, "conspiracy to outrage public decency", has now become a statutory offence.

The issuing of legal proceedings at the high court tomorrow challenges the lawfulness of such alleged complicity, arguing that "there is also a significant risk that GCHQ officers may be guilty of conduct ancillary to crimes against humanity and/or war crimes, both of which are statutory offences under the International Criminal Court Act, 2001".

A small number of separate statutory offences have been created to cover attempts concerning individual summary offences, in which case, usual attempt law and procedure applies.

However, the language of incitement is retained in other statutory offences, such as inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity contrary to section 8 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.

Under Section 16, the Act applies to servants of the crown, while Section 17 repeals all previous common law and statutory offences relating to bribery, replacing them with provisions of the Act.

Had you made any effort to determine the facts before rushing to judgment, you would have found that the reality was fundamentally different.We were asked to examine whether 17 Metropolitan Police officers had committed the strictly defined, statutory disciplinary offence of racial discrimination.