Treason Act 1945

Treason Act 1945
	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to assimilate the procedure in all cases of treason and misprision of treason to the procedure in cases of murder.
Citation	8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. 44
Territorial extent	United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent	15 June 1945
Commencement	15 June 1945
Repealed	England and Wales: 1 January 1968; Northern Ireland: 1 September 1973; Scotland: 1 February 1981;
Other legislation
Amends	Treason Act 1708; Treason Act 1800;
Amended by	Statute Law Revision Act 1953
Repealed by	England and Wales: Criminal Law Act 1967 s.10(2); Northern Ireland: Criminal Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1967, s.15(2); Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973, s.41(1); Scotland: Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980, s.83(3);
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Treason Act 1945 (8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. 44) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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.

It also abolished the rule that treason trials in Scotland had to be conducted according to the rules of English criminal law.