Treason Act 1842
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1842 c. 51 |
| Year | 1842 |
(5 & 6 Vict.) C A P. LI.
[16th July 1842]
'WHEREAS it is expedient that the Provisions contained in the Act of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Years of His late Majesty KingGeorge the Third, intituled , should be extended to all Cases of High Treason, in compassing or imagining the Death or Destruction of the Queen, or in compassing or imagining any bodily Harm tending to the Death or Destruction, maiming or wounding, of the Queen, and of Misprision of such Treason, when the overt Act or overt Acts of such Treason alleged in the Indictment shall be any Attempt to injure in any Manner whatsoever the Person of the Queen: And whereas it is also expedient to make further Provision by Law for the Protection and Security of the Person of the Sovereign of these Realms:' Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliamentassembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act, in all Cases of High Treason, in compassing or imagining any bodily Harm tending to the Death or Destruction, maiming or wounding, of the Queen, and in all Cases of Misprision of any such Treason, where the overt Act or overt Acts of such Treason alleged in the Indictment shall be any Attempt to injure in any Manner whatsoever the Person of the Queen, the Person or Persons charged with such Offence shall and may be indicted, arraigned, tried, and attainted in the same Manner, and according to the same Course and Order of Trial, in every respect, and upon the like Evidence, as if such Persons stood charged with Murder; and none of the Provisions contained in the several Acts of the Seventh Year of KingWilliam the Third, and the Seventh Year of Queen Anne , and the Sixth Year of King George the Fourth, respectively, touching Trials in Cases of Treason and Misprision of Treason respectively, shall extend to any Indictment for High Treason in compassing or imagining the Death or Destruction of the Queen, or to any Indictment for High Treason in compassing and imagining any bodily Harm tending to the Death or Destruction, maiming or wounding, of the Queen, or for Misprision of such Treason, where the overt Act or Acts of such Treason alleged in the Indictment shall be such as aforesaid; but, upon Conviction...
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