{{Short description|Act of the Parliament of Great Britain}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Use British English|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox UK legislation |short_title = Treason Act 1766{{efn|name=st|The citation of this act by this [[short title]] was authorised by section 1 of, and the first schedule to, the [[Short Titles Act 1896]]. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the [[Interpretation Act 1978]].}} |parliament = Parliament of Great Britain |type = Act |long_title = An Act for altering the Oath of Abjuration and the Assurance; and for amending so much of an Act of the Seventh Year of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for the Improvement of the Union of the two Kingdoms, as, after the Time therein limited, requires the Delivery of certain Lists and Copies therein mentioned to Persons indicted of High Treason, or Misprision of Treason. |year = 1766 | citation = [[6 Geo. 3]]. c. 53 |territorial_extent = [[Great Britain]] |royal_assent = 6 June 1766 |commencement = 4 June 1766{{efn|Section 1.}} |repeal_date = 15 June 1945 |amendments = [[Promissory Oaths Act 1871]] |amends = {{ubli|[[Treason Act 1708]]|[[Security of the Sovereign Act 1714]]|[[Church Patronage (Scotland) Act 1718]]}} |repealing_legislation= [[Treason Act 1945]] |related_legislation = {{ubli|[[Lords Justices Act 1837]]|[[Regency Act 1840]]}} |status = Repealed |original_text = https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=21UDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA287 }}
The '''Treason Act 1766'''{{efn|name=st}} ([[6 Geo. 3]]. c. 53) was an [[Act of Parliament (United Kingdom)|act]] of the [[Parliament of Great Britain]]. The [[long title]] was "An Act for altering the Oath of Abjuration and the Assurance; and for amending so much of an Act of the Seventh Year of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, [[Treason Act 1708|An Act for the Improvement of the Union of the two Kingdoms]], as, after the Time therein limited, requires the Delivery of certain Lists and Copies therein mentioned to Persons indicted of [[high treason|High Treason]], or [[misprision of treason|Misprision of Treason]]."
Sections 1 and 2 of the act were concerned with the [[oath of abjuration]]. Section 3 of the act disapplied certain procedural requirements in cases of high treason consisting of [[counterfeit]]ing the king's coin; namely the requirement in section 11 of the [[Treason Act 1708]] ([[7 Ann.]] c. 21) that the accused be given a list of the witnesses and the jurors. (This requirement had only come into force in 1766, on the death of [[James Francis Edward Stuart]], the [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] pretender to the throne.)
== Subsequent developments == The whole act was repealed on 15 June 1945 by section 2(1) of, and the schedule to, the [[Treason Act 1945]] ([[8 & 9 Geo. 6]]. c. 44).
==See also== *[[High treason in the United Kingdom]] *[[Treason Act]]
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