Treason Act 1817

Treason Act 1817^[1]

Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	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 [and Government] against Treasonable and Seditious Practices and Attempts [and for the Safety and Preservation of the Person of His Royal Highness The Prince Regent against Treasonable Practices and Attempts].[2]
Citation	57 Geo. 3. c. 6
Dates
Royal assent	17 March 1817
Other legislation
Repealed by	Crime and Disorder Act 1998
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Treason Act 1817 (57 Geo. 3. c. 6) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It made it high treason to assassinate the Prince Regent. It also made permanent the Treason Act 1795, which had been due to expire on the death of George III.

All the provisions of this Act in relation to the Treason Act 1795, except such of the same as related to the compassing, imagining, inventing, devising or intending death or destruction, or any bodily harm tending to death or destruction, maim or wounding, imprisonment or restraint of the persons of the heirs and successors of George III, and the expressing, uttering or declaring of such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices or intentions, or any of them, were repealed by section 1 of the Treason Felony Act 1848.

Sections 2 and 3 were repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1873.

The Acts of 1817 and 1795 were repealed by the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.

See also

• Seditious Meetings Act 1817
• Habeas Corpus Suspension Act 1817
• Treason Act

References

External links

• Text of the Treason Act 1817 as it stood immediately before its repeal in 1998, from the UK Statute Law Database.