Article 110: Violence against the Queen, Heir-apparent or Regent

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Section 110 protects three high offices, not one: it covers violence against the person or the liberty of the Queen or the Heir-apparent, and violence against the body or the liberty of the Regent. The base penalty is imprisonment for life, or a fixed term of sixteen to twenty years, which is one step below the offences against the King in Sections 107 and 108 because the base offence here carries no death penalty. The section then adds two further tiers of its own: death or imprisonment for life where the act is of a nature likely to endanger life, and twelve to twenty years for an act done in preparation for such violence or done to help conceal it by someone who knows it is coming. An attempt is punished the same way as the completed offence, provided for in the section itself rather than by the general rule in Section 80. Killing any of these three is the graver offence in Section 109. As with the rest of this group, the offence is committed by a physical act rather than by any expression, which is what separates it from Section 112, and Section 111 makes a supporter in any offence under Sections 107 to 110 liable to the same punishment as a principal.