Treason Act, 1939

Encouraging, harbouring, or comforting persons guilty of treason.

2.—(1) Every person who encourages, harbours, or comforts any person whom he knows or has reasonable grounds for believing to be engaged in committing treason shall 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 penal servitude for a term not exceeding twenty years or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such penal servitude or imprisonment.

(2) No person shall be convicted of felony under this section on the uncorroborated evidence of one witness.