An Act for enlarging the Time for taking the Oath of Abjuration; and also for re-capacitating and indemnifying such Persons as have not taken the same by the Time limited, and shall take the same by a Time to be appointed; and for the further Security of Her Majesty's Person, and the Succession of the Crown in the Protestant Line; and for extinguishing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and all other Pretenders, and their open and secret Abettors.
Citation
1 Ann. St. 2. c. 21 (Ruffhead c. 17)
Territorial extent
Kingdom of England (inc. Wales); extended to Scotland in 1708
Dates
Royal assent
27 February 1703
Status: Current legislation
Revised text of statute as amended
United Kingdom legislation
Treason Act (Ireland) 1703
Act of Parliament
Parliament of Ireland
Long title
An Act to make it High Treason in this Kingdom to impeach the Succession of the Crown, as limited by several Acts of Parliament.
Citation
2 Ann. c. 5 (I)
Other legislation
Amended by
Treason Act 1945
Status: Partially repealed
Status
Republic of Ireland
Repealed
Northern Ireland
Current legislation
Text of the Treason Act (Ireland) 1703 [I] as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.
The Treason Act 1702[1] (1 Ann. St. 2. c. 21[2]) is an Act of the Parliament of England, passed to enforce the line of succession to the English throne (today the British throne), previously established by the Bill of Rights 1689 and the Act of Settlement 1701.
The Act makes it treason to "endeavour to deprive or hinder any person who shall be the next in succession to the crown for the time being ... from succeeding after the decease of her Majesty (whom God long preserve) to the imperial crown of this realm and the dominions and territories thereunto belonging".
Originally a capital offence, the penalty was reduced in 1998 to life imprisonment.
Although the Act was passed by the English Parliament, it was later extended to Scotland by the Treason Act 1708, following the Union of the two kingdoms in the previous year. The Parliament of Ireland passed a law to the same effect in 1703, the Treason Act (Ireland) 1703 (2 Ann. c. 5 (I)). This is still in force in Northern Ireland.
^This Act does not have a statutory short title, but is commonly known by this name; The Stationery Office, Chronological Table of the Statutes, 2007, p.76
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