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    The Crimes (Repeal of Seditious Offences) Amendment Act 2007 is an Act of Parliament passed in New Zealand in 2007. It removed the crime of sedition from...
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  • Sedition (redirect from Seditious)
    7 May 2007 that the sedition law would be repealed. The Crimes (Repeal of Seditious Offences) Amendment Act 2007 was passed on 24 October 2007, and entered...
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  • The Sedition Act 1948 (Malay: Akta Hasutan 1948) in Malaysia is a law prohibiting discourse deemed as seditious. The act was originally enacted by the...
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  • Thumbnail for Defence of India Act 1915
    November that year the Prevention of Seditious Meetings Act was passed. February 1910 saw the introduction of Indian Press Act which allowed Provincial governments...
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    Besides treason, the 1661 Act created other offences designed to protect the national security. These offences required the evidence of two witnesses or a confession...
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    importation of seditious publications. The essential ingredient of any offence under the Act was the finding of a "seditious tendency", and the intention of the...
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    of the Shipping Offences Act 1793 section 23 of the Seditious Meetings Act 1817 section 5 of the Public Order Act 1936 Section 11 – Advance notice of...
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  • "Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of offence of publication or utterance of blasphemous matter) Act 2018 – No. C37 of 2018 – Houses of the Oireachtas"...
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    section 2 of the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860 Offences under section 7 of the Burial Laws Amendment Act 1880 Offences under section 59 of the...
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  • of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed Prohibition and the Eighteenth Amendment. In a well-known example of jury nullification, at the end of Wild...
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