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Treason Act 1842
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Treason Act 1842
1842 CHAPTER 51
An Act for providing for the further Security and Protection of Her Majesty's Person.
[16th July 1842]
WHEREAS it is expedient that the Provisions contained in the [39 & 40 G. 3. c. 93.] Act of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Years of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to regulate Trials for High Treason and Misprision of Treason in certain Cases, should be extended to all Cases of High Treason, in compassing or imagining the Death or Destruction of the Queen, or in compassing or imagining any bodily Harm tending to the Death or Destruction, maiming or wounding, of the Queen, and of Misprision of such Treason, when the overt Act or overt Acts of such Treason alleged in the Indictment shall be any Attempt to injure in any Manner whatsoever the Person of the Queen : And whereas it is also expedient to make further Provision by Law for the Protection and Security of the Person of the Sovereign of these Realms :
Be it enacted by the Queen'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,
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