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Certain acts to be treason.
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1.—(1) Every person who commits in Saorstát Eireann any of the following acts, that is to say:—
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(a) levies war against Saorstát Eireann, or
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(b) assists any state or person engaged in levying war against Saorstát Eireann, or
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(c) conspires with any person (other than his or her wife or husband) or incites any person to levy war against Saorstát Eireann, or
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(d) attempts or takes part or is concerned in an attempt to overthrow by force of arms or other violent means the Government of Saorstát Eireann as established by or under the Constitution, or
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(e) conspires with any person (other than his or her wife or husband) or incites any person to make or to take part or be concerned in any such attempt,
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shall be guilty of treason and shall be liable on conviction thereof to suffer death.
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(2) Every person who, being a citizen of or ordinarily resident in Saorstát Eireann, commits outside Saorstát Eireann any of the acts mentioned in the foregoing sub-section shall be guilty of treason and shall be liable on conviction thereof to suffer death
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(3) Every person who encourages, harbours, or comforts any person engaged in levying war against Saorstát Eireann or engaged, taking part, or concerned in any attempt to overthrow by force of arms or other violent means the Government of Saorstát Eireann as established by or under the Constitution shall (unless he satisfies the Court that he did not know and had no reason to believe that the person encouraged, harboured or comforted was so engaged, concerned or taking part as aforesaid) be guilty of felony and on conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds or, at the discretion of the court, to suffer penal servitude for any term not exceeding twenty years or imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding two years, or to both such fine and such penal servitude or imprisonment.
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(4) Every person charged under this section with treason shall and may be indicted, arraigned, and tried in the same manner and according to the same course and order of trial in every respect as if such person stood charged with murder, and if such person is found guilty of treason he shall be convicted and sentenced in the same manner as if he had been found guilty of murder.
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(5) No person shall be convicted under this section of treason or of felony on the uncorroborated evidence of one witness.
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