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| Long title | An Act to assimilate the procedure in all cases of treason and misprision of treason to the procedure in cases of murder. |
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| Citation | 8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. 44 |
| Territorial extent | United Kingdom[1] |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 15 June 1945 |
| Other legislation | |
| Amends | Treason Act 1708 |
| Repealed by | |
Status: Repealed | |
The Treason Act 1945 (8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. 44) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It was introduced into the House of Lords as a purely procedural statute, whose sole purpose was to abolish the old and highly technical procedure in cases of treason, and assimilate it to the procedure on trials for murder:
Its provisions are absolutely confined to matters of procedure, and it does not make any change whatsoever in the law as to what constitutes treason.[2]
It also abolished the rule that treason trials in Scotland had to be conducted according to the rules of English criminal law.[3]
- ^ The Act is presumed to extend to the United Kingdom because the contrary is not specified
- ^ The Earl of Munster, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (30 May 1945). "Treason Bill. [H.L.]". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 136. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: House of Lords. col. 265.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Repealing section 4 of the Treason Act 1708.