Interpretation

(1) For the purposes of this Title“escape” includes the departure by a prisoner on parole beyond the limits within which he is allowed to be at large; 146 “seditious assembly” is an assembly of five or more persons with a seditious purpose, or at which any seditious libel is published, or at which any speeches are made with a seditious “seditious libel” is the publication, by print, writing, painting or by any means otherwise than solely by gestures, spoken words or other sounds, of any matter with a seditious purpose; “seditious purpose” means a purpose to excite any of Her Majesty’s subjects to the obtaining by force or other unlawful means of an alteration in the laws or in the form of Government, or to the commission of any crime punishable under the first section of this Title or punishable under any law relating to treason; “unlawful oath” means any oath or engagement to commit or abet any crime, or to conceal a design to commit any crime, or to prevent the discovery of any crime, or the conviction of any person for any crime, and any oath or engagement to conceal the existence, purposes or proceedings of any association of persons associated for any treasonable or seditious purpose. (2) A seditious libel cannot be justified on any ground of absolute or qualified privilege. TITLE XIV Crimes Against the Public Peace