A.D. 1800. Anno quadragasimo primo Georgii III. C. 32. 591
CAP. XXXII.
An Act for further continuing, until six Weeks after the Commencement of the next Session of Parliament, several Acts made in the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth Years of his present Majesty's Reign, and in the last Session of Parliament, for empowering his Majesty to secure and detain such Persons as his Majesty shall suspect are conspiring against his Person and Government.
[31st December 1800.]
WHEREAS an Act was passed on the twenty-eighth Day of February owe thousand eight hundred,
[39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 20.]
intituled, An Act for further continuing, until the first Day of February one thousand eight hundred and one, An Act, made in the last Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act for further continuing until the first Day of March one thousand eight hundred, an Act, made in the last Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act to empower his Majesty to secure and detain such Persons as his Majesty shall suspect are conspiring against his Person and Government, which Act was to continue in force until the first Day of February one thousand eight hundred and one, and no longer: And whereas it is necessary for the publick Safety that the Provisions of the said Act passed on the twenty-eighth Day of February one thousand eight hundred, should be continued; be it therefore enacted, &c.
Persons who are or shall be imprisoned for High Treason, &c. may be detained, till the Expiration of six Weeks after the Commencement of the next Session of Parliament. $ 1. Act in Scotland of 1701, 44 for preventing wrongous Imprisonment, so far as may relate to Treason, See. suspended till the same Period. ft* I<rom that Period, Persons so committed shall have the Benefit of all Laws providing ftf the Liberty of the Subject* §3. Privileges of Parliament shall not be invalidated by this Act. § 4* 44 Persons imprisoned, and against whom Jud gments for High Treason are already found, shall be tried thereon. § 5 Any one of his Majesty.*s Secretaries of State order Persons committed on any charge of High Treason, &c. to be conveyed from one Prison to another. Such Removal not to deprive any Person of any Right to be tried or discharged. § 6. Persons charged with High Treason, &c. by Warrant of a Principal Secretary of State, and sent from Ireland to Great Britain, by Order of the Lord Lieutenant and fix Privy Councilors, may be detained in Custody in such Place as his Majesty shall think fit. $ 7.
[The first Words of this Section are, And whereas in the disturbed State,” See. 44 instead of the present disturbed State,” as in former Acts ] But when such Persons are entitled by the Law of Ireland to be tried or discharged, they may apply to the Court of King’s Bench in England* or Court of Justiciary in Scotland> or any Judge of those Courts, who shall order them to be discharged or sent to Ireland. § 8. One of his Majesty's secretaries of State may order any Person in Custody on a 44 Charge of High Treason, &c. committed in Ireland\ to be detained in Great Britain, until he Can be *4 properly sent to Ireland to be tried or discharged* § 9. But Persons entitled to their Trial or Discharge* may apply for the same, as under $ 8. preceding.—§ 10. Continuance of Act.4ill the Expiration of six Weeks after the Commencement of the next Session and no longer. § 11.”
