We must ensure that the proposal is in keeping with other penal acts adopted at European level.

Albanian-language schools were declared illegal, and even possessing a book in Albanian letters became a penal act.

As of 2005, the Norwegian penal act criminalizes any depictions that 'sexualize' children, even if it does not actually show sexual acts with children.

There are no reasons given why these highly penal acts should have been renewed; nor is it alleged that the clan had been guilty of late irregularities.

In 1813 the penal acts against deniers of the Trinity were repealed by the Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813, largely pushed through Parliament by William Smith, M.P., abolitionist, and grandfather of Florence Nightingale.