Seditious conspiracy

(1) Every person who– (a) conspires with any other person or persons to do any act in furtherance of any seditious intention common to both or all of them; 142 (b) publishes any words or document with a seditious intention; or (c) without lawful excuse, is found in possession of a document containing a seditious intention, shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for two years and on summary conviction to imprisonment for one year. (2) No proceedings shall be instituted under this section without the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions. (3) For the purposes of this section “publish”– (a) in the case of spoken words, means to utter words or reproduce words by mechanical means at a public gathering or in a public street or any other place to which the public has access, or in such a way that they may be heard by persons in any street or place; (b) in the case of writings, drawings, pictures, photographs or images, means to distribute them to a number of persons, or exhibit them in such a way that they may be seen by persons in a public street or in any other place to which the public has access, or to sell or expose or offer them for sale in any place.