The government acknowledges it erroneously listed a rule that threatens to imprison for life anybody who calls for the overthrow of the monarchy On a list of recently abolished offenses.

A 165-year-old legislation that threatens life imprisonment for anybody advocating for the monarchy’s overthrow is legally still in effect, after the Ministry of Justice acknowledged that it hadn’t been abolished.

The administration has stated that republicanism is still punishable by life in jail, and that simply imagining toppling the Queen is still unlawful.

The Ministry of Justice released a list of 309 outdated crimes scheduled to be abolished on Thursday, including section three of the Treason Felony Act 1848, which has not been used to punish anybody since 1879.

Throughout this century, the Treason Felony Act of 1848 has been the source of legal ambiguity. In 2003, the Guardian filed a high court challenge against it.

The news comes after the Ministry of Justice made the humiliating admission that a statute threatening to imprison for life anybody who calls for the monarchy’s overthrow was erroneously placed on a list of 309 crimes set to be abolished before May.

Because of the mistake, it is still illegal to ‘’imagine” toppling the monarchy or waging war against the Queen, which implies the legislation applies to anybody ‘’within or outside the United Kingdom.” Anyone found guilty faces being “transported beyond the seas for the term of his or her natural life.”

“Section 3 of the Treason Felony Act 1848 has not been repealed. The Ministry of Justice has removed this publication and is reviewing its contents,” the Ministry of Justice said.

In the year to May, a total of 327 criminal offenses were created, a 12 percent rise over the previous 12 months.

Following a successful court challenge, Britain’s Legislation Lords ruled in 2003 that the law was a “relic of a bygone age” that did not fit into the contemporary legal system, although it is still prohibited.

The offense of being a “incorrigible rogue” was one of the 309 statutes that were recently repealed.

The Guardian, which had launched a campaign for the establishment of a republic, filed a legal challenge against the antiquated statute in 2001, claiming that it prevented freedom of expression as guaranteed by the Human Rights Act 1998. The newspaper’s case was dismissed by the law lords as unnecessary.