Unlawful Oaths (Ireland) Act 1810
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1810 c. 102 |
| Year | 1810 |
(50 Geo. 3) C A P. CII.
[20th June 1810]
'WHEREAS divers wicked and evil disposed Persons have from time to time attempted to seduce several of His Majesty's Subjects inIreland from their Duty and Allegiance to His Majesty, and to associate them under the pretended Obligations of Oaths unlawfully administered:' Be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That any Personor Persons who at any time after the passing of this Act shall administer or cause to be administered, tender or cause to be tendered, or be present aiding and assisting at the administering or tendering, or who shall by Threats, Promises, Persuasions, or other undue Means, cause, procure or induce to be taken by any Person or Persons inIreland , upon a Book or otherwise, any Oath or Engagement importing to bind the Person or Persons taking the same to be of any Association, Brotherhood, Committee, Society or Confederacy whatsoever, in reality formed or to be formed for seditious Purposes, or to disturb the Publick Peace, or to injure the Persons or Property of any Person or Persons whatsoever, or to compel any Person or Persons whatsoever, to do or omit or refuse to do any Act or Acts whatsoever, under whatever Name, Description or Pretence such Association, Brotherhood, Committee, Society or Confederacy shall assume or pretend to be formed or constituted, or any Oath or Engagement importing to bind the Person taking the same to obey the Orders or Rules or Commands of any Committee or other Body of Men not lawfully constituted, or of any Captain, Leader or Commander (not appointed by or under the Authority of His Majesty, his Heirs and Successors) or to assemble at the Desire and Command of any such Captain, Leader, Commander or Committee, or of any Person or Persons not having lawful Authority, or not to inform or give Evidence against any Brother, Associate, Confederate or other Person, or not to reveal or discover his or her having taken any illegal Oath, or not to reveal or discover any illegal Act done or to be done, or not to discover any illegal Oath or Engagement which may be administered or tendered to him or her, or the Import thereof, whether such Oath shall be afterwards so administered or tendered or not, or whether he or she shall take such Oath or enter into such Engagement or not, being by due Course of Law convicted thereof, shall be adjudged guilty of Felonyand be transported for Life; and every Person who shall take, inIreland , any such Oath or Engagement, importing so to bind him or her as aforesaid, and being by due Course of Law thereof convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of Felony, and be transported for Seven Years.
II Necessity not to justify Offenders, unless they give Information to a Justice.
II. Provided always, That any Person or Persons who may have been compelled by inevitable Necessity to commit any of the Offences aforesaid, upon Proof of...
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