TREASONABLE OFFENCES.
No. 3 of 1868.
161
against per [11 & 12 Vict. c. 12 s. 1.] visions of the last-mentioned Act in relation thereto, save such of offences the same respectively as relate 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 person of the heirs and successors of His Majesty King George the Third, and the expressing, uttering or declaring of such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions, or any of them, shall cease to be of force in this Colony.
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3. If any person whosoever, compasses, imagines, invents, devises, or intends to deprive or depose our Most Gracious Lord the King from the style, honour, or royal name of the Crown of the United Kingdom or of any other of His Majesty's dominions or countries, or to levy war against His Majesty within any part of the United Kingdom, in order by force or constraint to compel him to change his measures or counsels, or in order to put any force or constraint upon, or to intimidate or overawe, both Houses or either House of Parliament, or in order to move or stir any foreigner or stranger with force to invade the United Kingdom or any other His Majesty's dominions or countries under the obeisance of His Majesty and expresses such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions, or any of them, by publishing any printing or writing, or by open and advised speaking, or by any overt act or deed, he shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for life.
4. Provided always that no person shall be prosecuted for any felony by virtue of this Ordinance in respect of such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions as aforesaid, in so far as the same are expressed, uttered, or declared by open and advised speaking only, unless information of such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, and intentions and of the words by which the same were expressed, uttered, or declared, is given upon oath to a Justice of the Peace within 6 days after such words have been spoken, and unless a warrant for the apprehension of the person by whom such words have been spoken is issued within 10 days after such information has been given as aforesaid, and
* As amended by No. 50 of 1911 and No. 62 of 1911.
§ As amended by No. 30 of 1911, No. 50 of 1911, No. 51 of 1911, No. 62 of 1911, No. 63 of 1911 and the Final Revision Ordinance 1912.
§ As amended by No. 19 of 1911, No. 51 of 1911 and No. 62 of 1911.
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3. If any person whosoever, compasses, imagines, invents, de- Compassing vises, or intends to deprive or depose our Most Gracious Lord the the King of
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4. Provided always that no person shall be prosecuted for any Time within felony by virtue of this Ordinance in respect of such compassings, secution to imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions as aforesaid, in so be com far as the same are expressed, uttered, or declared by open and advised speaking only, unless information of such compassings, issued, etc. imaginations, inventions, devices, and intentions and of the words by which the same were expressed, uttered, or declared, is given upon oath to a Justice of the Peace within 6 days after such words have been spoken, and unless a warrant for the apprehension of the person by whom such words have been spoken is issued within 10 days after such information has been given as aforesaid, and
* As amended by No. 50 of 1911 and No. 62 of 1911.
As amended by No. 30 of 1911, No. 50 of 1911, No. 51 of 1911, No. 62 of 1911, No. 63 of 1911 and the Final Revision Ordinance 1012.
§ As amended by No. 19 of 1911, No. 51 of 1911 and No. 62 of 1911.
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