The Treason Act 1817 (57 Geo. 3. c. 6) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The act made it high treason to assassinate the Prince Regent. It also made permanent the Treason Act 1795 (36 Geo. 3. c. 7), which had been due to expire on the death of George III.
Subsequent developments The whole act, except as relates "to the compassing, imagining, inventing, devising, or intending Death or Destruction, or any bodily Harm tending to Death or Destruction, Maim or Wounding, Imprisonment or Restraint of the Person of the Heirs and Successors of His said Majesty King George the Third, and the expressing, uttering, or declaring of such Compassings, Imaginations, Inventions, Devices, or Intentions, or any of them", was repealed by section 1 of the Treason Felony Act 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 12), which came into force on 22 April 1848.
Sections 2 and 3 of the act were repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 91), which came into force on 5 August 1873.
The whole act was repealed by section 36(3)(a) and section 120(2) of, and schedule 10 to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, which came into force on 30 September 1998. The 1998 act abolished the death penalty for treason.
See also Seditious Meetings Act 1817 Habeas Corpus Suspension Act 1817 Treason Act
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