Treason and Lords of Justiciary and counterfeiting the Great Seal of Scotland remain treason under sections 11 and 12 of the Treason Act 1708 respectively. Treason is a reserved matter about which the Scottish Parliament is prohibited from legislating. Two acts of the former Parliament of Ireland passed in 1537 and 1542 create further treasons which apply in Northern Ireland. The penalty for treason was changed from death to a maximum of imprisonment for life in 1998 under the Crime And Disorder Act. Before 1998, the death penalty was mandatory, subject to the royal prerogative of mercy. Since the abolition of
United Nations moratorium on the death penalty not to reintroduce it; 4. "Requests" the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-third session on the implementation of the present resolution; 5. "Decides" to continue consideration of the matter at its sixty-third session under the same agenda item. "The General Assembly," "Reaffirming" its resolution 62/149 of 18 December 2007 on a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, "Welcoming" the decisions taken by an increasing number of States to apply a moratorium on executions and the global trend towards the abolition of the death penalty, 1. "Welcomes" the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation