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200 PDFTitle:CRIMES ORDINANCEGazette Number:
Section:3Heading:Treasonable offencesVersion Date:30/06/1997

(1) Any person who forms an intention to effect any of the following purposes, that is to say-

        (a) to depose Her Majesty from the style, honour and royal name of the Crown of the United Kingdom or of any other of Her Majesty's dominions;
        (b) to levy war against Her Majesty within the United Kingdom or any British territory in order by force or constraint to compel Her Majesty to change Her measures or counsels, or in order to put any force or constraint upon, or to intimidate or overawe, Parliament or the legislature of any British territory; or
        (c) to instigate any foreigner with force to invade the United Kingdom or any British territory,
and manifests such intention by an overt act or by publishing any printing or writing, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction upon indictment to imprisonment for life. [cf. 1848 c. 12 s. 3 U.K.]
(2) It shall be no defence to a charge under this section that any act proved against the person charged amounts to treason under section 2; but no person convicted or acquitted of an offence under this section shall afterwards be prosecuted for treason under section 2 upon the same facts. [cf. 1848 c. 12 s. 7 U.K.]