The Treason (Ireland) Act 1821 (1 & 2 Geo. 4. c. 24) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It extended most of the English Treason Act 1695 (7 & 8 Will. 3. c. 3) to Ireland. The 1695 act as enacted applied to England and Wales and was extended to Scotland by the Treason Act 1708 (7 Ann. c. 21).

Provisions

Section 1 As originally enacted, section 1 of the act extended sections 2 to 5 of the Treason Act 1695 (7 & 8 Will. 3. c. 3) to Ireland. All but section 5 of the 1695 act were repealed by the Treason Act 1945 (8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. 44). Therefore, today the effect of section 1 is only to extend section 5 of the act to Northern Ireland, which imposes a three-year time limit on bringing prosecutions for treason.

Section 2 Section 2 of the act stated that the above time limit did not apply to attempts on the life of the king, or to misprision of such treason. (Similar provision had been made in section 6 of the act.) Section 2 also stated that trials for such treason or misprision were to be conducted according to the rules of evidence and procedure applicable in ordinary murder trials, which were different from the rules for treason trials. The rule had been introduced in Great Britain by the Treason Act 1800.)

Subsequent developments The words of enactment in section 2 of the act were repealed by section 1(1) of, and part I of the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 3), which came into force on 27 March 1888.

Section 1 of the act to "twenty-two" was repealed by section 1 of, and the first schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 33), which came into force on 4 August 1890.

Section 2 of the act was repealed by section 2(1) of, and the schedule to, the Treason Act 1945 (8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. 44), which came into force on 15 June 1945.

The whole act was repealed for the Republic of Ireland by section 1 of, and part 4 of the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1983, which came into force on 16 May 1983.

See also Treason Act (Ireland) 1765 Treason (Ireland) Act 1854 Treason Act

Notes

References The Statutes Revised. Third Edition. HMSO. 1950. Volume 2. Pages ccxxv and 770. John Raithby. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. King's Printers. London. 1822. Volume 8. Pages 318 and 319. Digitised copy from Google Books.

External links

List of repeals in the Republic of Ireland from the Irish Statute Book.