Treason Act 1817

The Treason Act 1817^[1]
Dates
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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... against Treasonable and Seditious Practices and Attempts,...^[2]
Citation	57 Geo 3 c 6
Royal assent	17 March 1817
Status: Repealed
Revised text of statute as amended

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uttering or declaring of such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices or intentions, or any of them, were repealed by section 1 of the Treason Felony Act 1848.

Sections 2 and 3 were repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1873.

The Acts of 1817 and 1795 were repealed by the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.

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↑ The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Short Titles Act 1896. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
↑ The words omitted were repealed by the Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1890

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

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Treason Act 1817

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