A person guilty of conspiracy to defraud is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding ten years, or to a fine, or to both.

I agree that the sentence should be quashed and in its place the respondent should be sentenced on the three indictments to imprisonment for two years and six months from 13 December 2002.

"Under the Act, any person who knowingly causes a nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life," he writes.

(1) Any person who commits an act of gross indecency with another person commits an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for ten years or on summary conviction to five years.

The previous position regarding homosexual couples is contained in s.118C which provides that a man who commits or suffers to commit buggery with a man under the age of 21 is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life.

Non-compliance with the licence conditions is a criminal offence and would result in a fine not exceeding £1000 on summary conviction, or on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or a fine or both.

Section 2(1) of the Suicide Act 1961 states: “A person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the suicide of another, or an attempt by another to commit suicide, shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years.”

It states: "A person who without lawful excuse makes to another a threat, intending that that other would fear it would be carried out, to kill that other or a third person shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years."

But what is one to make of a solemn pronouncement in a Companies Act that 'an insurance company which contravenes a restriction to which it is subject by virtue of subsections (1) or (2) above shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years'?

(1) Where a person has sexual intercourse with another with the other's consent and that other person has attained the age of 14 but has not yet attained the age of 16 that person is guilty of an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term of 10 years.