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TREASON ACT 1817

TREASON ACT 1817 - LONG TITLE

An Act to make perpetual certain Parts of an Act of the
Thirty-Sixth Year of His present Majesty for the Safety and
Preservation of His Majesty's Person . . .{1} against Treasonable
and Seditious Practices and Attempts,{2} . . .{1}.
[17th March 1817]
Recital of 1795 c.7.

WHEREAS by the Treason Act 1795, it was amongst other things
enacted that if any person or persons whatsoever, after the day of
the passing of that Act, during the natural life of His Majesty,
and until the end of the next session of Parliament after the
demise of the Crown, should, within the realm or without, compass,
imagine, invent, devise, or intend death or destruction, or any
bodily harm tending to death or destruction, maim or wounding,
imprisonment or restraint of the person of His Majesty, his heirs
and successsors,... and such compassings, imaginations, inventions,
devices, or intentions, or any of them, should express, utter, or
declare by publishing any printing or writing, or by any overt act
or deed, being legally convicted thereof upon the oaths of two
lawful and credible witnesses upon trial, or otherwise convicted or
attainted by due course of law, then every such person and persons
so as aforesaid offending should be deemed, declared, and adjudged
to be a traitor and traitors, and should suffer pains of death,
and also lose and forfeit as in cases of high treason: And whereas
it is necessary and expedient that such of the provisions of the
said Act as would expire at the end of the next session of
Parliament after the demise of the Crown should be further continued
and made perpetual:[

TREASON ACT 1817 - SECT 1
Provisions of recited Act made perpetual.

1.] All and every the herein-before recited provisions which relate
to the heirs and successors of His Majesty, the Sovereigns of these
realms shall be and the same are hereby made perpetual.

Ss.2, 3 rep. by SLR 1873

TREASON ACT 1817 - SECT 4
Persons accused of high treason entitled to benefit of 1695 c.3,
except in cases herein mentioned.

4. Provided, that all and every person and persons, that shall at
any time be accused, or indicted or prosecuted for any offence made
or declared to be high treason by this Act, shall be entitled to
the benefit of the Treason Act, 1695,... save and except in cases
of high treason in compassing or imagining the death of any heir
or successor of His Majesty, and of misprison of such treason,
where the overt act or overt acts of such treason which shall be
alleged in the indictment for such offence shall be assassination or
killing of any heir or successor of His Majesty, or any direct
attempt against the life of any heir or successor of His Majesty,
or any direct attempt against the person of any heir or successor
of His Majesty, whereby the life of such heir or successor may be
endangered, or the person of such heir or successor, may suffer
bodily harm.

TREASON ACT 1817 - SECT 5
This Act not to affect prosecutions to which persons would be
liable if this Act had not passed.

5. Provided also, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend
or be construed to extend to prevent or affect any prosecution, by
information or indictment, to which any person or persons would have
been or would be liable, if this Act had not been enacted, for
any offence within the provisions of this Act, unless the party
shall have been first prosecuted under this Act.

TREASON ACT 1817 - SECT 6
1814 c.146 extended to sentences under this Act.

6. Provided also, that the Treason Act, 1814, shall have the same
effect as to sentences and judgements to be pronounced and awarded
under this Act, as if this Act had been made and passed before
the said Treason Act, 1814.






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