Section 49Part 3 — Offences Against Public Order
Treasonable offences
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A person who forms an intention to effect any of the following purposes, that is to say —
to depose the Sovereign from the style, honour and royal name of the Crown of the United Kingdom, or of any other of His dominions or countries;
to levy war against the Sovereign in any part of His dominions, or country which has been declared to be under His protection or mandate, in order by force or constraint to compel the Sovereign to change His measures or counsels, or in order to put any force or constraint upon, or in order to intimidate or overawe the legislature or legislative authority of any of His dominions, or of any country which has been declared to be under His protection or mandate; or
to instigate any foreigner to make an armed invasion of any of the Sovereign's dominions or of any country which has been declared to be under His protection or mandate,
and manifests such intention by any overt act, or by publishing any printing or writing, commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for life.