make something an offence
make it an offence to do something

The Acts made it an offence not to pay employees in common currency.

The Act made it an offence to tattoo a person under the age of eighteen, save for medical reasons.

Make a serious professional offence to give a patient a medicine simply because they asked for it .

See that it is made a criminal offence, in every country, for anyone to express any sympathy with them.

The first part of the act makes it an offence to "meet a child following certain preliminary contact".

The attempt itself has been made an offence in India, as in other states.

In fact, it makes all individual effort an offence against the state.

It must be made a criminal offence to throw food away.

That is the way to make an offence gracious, though few have the grace to do it.

Indeed, the law makes it a possible criminal offence for someone to exercise the fundamental human right to use their mother tongue.