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Section 7(a) - Petty border offence (756/2000)
(1) If the border offence, in view of the short duration of the unauthorised stay or
movement, the nature of the prohibited act, or the other circumstances of the offence is petty when assessed as a whole, the offender shall be sentenced for a petty border offence to a fine.
(2) The provisions in section 7, subsection 2 apply also to acts referred to in subsection 1.
Section 7(b) - Territorial violation (756/2000)
(1) A soldier of a foreign state or the master of a foreign state vessel or state aircraft,
who
(1) breaches the Act on Territorial Surveillance (755/2000) in a manner referred to in section 44 of the said Act,
(2) breaches the provisions in sections 4 through 9 of the Act on Territorial
Surveillance on entry into Finnish territory or staying in the territory, or
(3) breaches conditions imposed in a permit issued on the basis of section
10 of the Act on Territorial Surveillance,
shall be sentenced for a territorial violation to a fine or to imprisonment for at
most one year.
(2) In a matter pertaining to a territorial violation, the prosecutor may waive prosecution or the court may waive punishment, if the territorial violation has been
immediately interrupted or if the offender has for that reason been refused entry
or deported.
Section 8 - Arrangement of illegal immigration (146/2014)
(1) A person who
(1) brings or attempts to bring to or transport through Finland a foreigner
without a passport, visa, residence permit or other document comparable to a passport, that is necessary for entry into the country,
(2) brings or attempts to bring to or transport through Finland a foreigner
whose document referred to in paragraph 1 is false, forged, issued to
another person or received from an authority on the basis of essential
information that is false or misleading, or by bribing the authority or
violent resistance of the authority,
(3) arranges or, as an intermediary, provides transportation for a foreigner
referred to in paragraph 1 or 2 to Finland, or
(4) gives to another person a document referred to in paragraph 2 for use in
entry into the country,
shall be sentenced for arrangement of illegal immigration to a fine or imprisonment for at most two years.