Treason Act 1945
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The Treason Act 1945 (8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. 44) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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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] |
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Royal assent | 15 June 1945 |
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Status: Repealed |
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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]