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10. Any person who—
 * (a) administers, or is present at and consents to the administering of, any oath or engagement in the nature of an oath, purporting to bind the person who takes it to commit any offence punishable with death; or
 * (b) takes any such oath or engagement, not being compelled to do so,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction upon indictment to imprisonment for life.

11. Any person who—
 * (a) administers, or is present at and consents to the administering of, any oath or engagement in the nature of an oath, purporting to bind the person who takes it to act in any of the following ways, that is to say—
 * (i) to engage in any mutinous or seditious enterprise;
 * (ii) to commit any offence not punishable with death;
 * (iii) to provoke a breach of the peace;
 * (iv) to be of any association or society, formed for the purpose of doing any act mentioned in sub-paragraph (i), (ii) or (iii);
 * (v) to obey the orders or commands of any committee or body of men not lawfully constituted, or of any leader or commander or other person not having authority by law for that purpose;
 * (vi) not to inform or give evidence against any associate or other person;
 * (vii) not to reveal or discover any unlawful association or society or any illegal act done or to be done, or any illegal oath or engagement that may have been administered or tendered to or taken by himself or any other person, or the import of any such oath or engagement; of
 * (b) takes any such oath or engagement, not being compelled to do so,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction upon indictment to imprisonment for seven years.

12. It shall be no defence to a charge under section 10 or 11 that the person charged was compelled to take any oath or engagement mentioned therein, unless—
 * (a) within fourteen days after taking it; or