Crimes Ordinance
Part I
1-6
Section 3
Cap. 200
(f) conspires with any other person to do anything
mentioned in paragraph (a) or (c).
(2) Any person who commits treason shall be guilty of an
offence and shall be liable on conviction on indictment to
imprisonment for life. (Amended 24 of 1993 s. 2)
[cf. 1351 c. 2 U.K.; 1795 c. 7 s. 1 U.K.; 1817 c. 6 s. 1 U.K.]
3.
Treasonable offences
(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.]
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