The penalties for substituting others in universities are as follows: 1. Criminal punishment: Whoever steals or uses another person's identity to accept higher education qualifications instead of others shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also be fined. 2. If the perpetrator of the administrative punishment is minor and does not constitute a crime, the public security organ shall impose a fine ranging from 200 yuan to 1000 yuan, or detain him for 10 days. If there are illegal gains, the illegal gains shall be confiscated. 3. The perpetrator of civil punishment fraudulently uses other people's identity information, which infringes on the right to education and name of the impersonator, and shall bear the corresponding tort liability.

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Article 280 bis of the Criminal Law shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also be fined. Whoever organizes or instigates others to commit the acts mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be given a heavier punishment in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph. State functionaries who commit the acts mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs, which constitute other crimes, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of combined punishment for several crimes.