Hi,
Some of you may be aware that a law change next April will result in many honest mediums being prosecuted. The government have responded to a petition that was created this year to change "the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951". This act will be repealed from April 2008.

Whilst we agree that those who are deliberately fraudulent should be prosecuted, we feel that these changes should only go through after extensive consultation with all spiritualist organisations. We need to work together to create unified code of conduct. The danger of doing nothing will leave us powerless to operate as we have been with the potential of taking years to unwind.

For us TO HAVE A VOICE we need as many people to sign the petition as possible.
The deadline for this is 6th Feb 2008. Please forward on to your friends and colleagues.

You must be a British citizen or resident to sign the petition.

Click the link below to sign the petition.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Clairvoyants 



http://www.essexspiritguide.co.uk/article.aspx?a=451&p=39

Thought I would post this because a lot of people don't know that this even exists even people in the in the U.K are not aware. Its due to be replaced soon. What I understand is that the new act will be on the lines of. If the sitter can prove that what you (The medium) have said to them is lies then your for the chop!!. How the sitter can prove what a medium has said is a lie I don't know, but what I do know is that things are going to be a lot tougher for working mediums in the U.K.

Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951

An Act to repeal the Witchcraft Act 1735, and to make, in substitution for certain provisions of section four of the Vagrancy Act 1824, express provision for the punishment of persons who fraudulently purport to act as spiritualistic mediums or to exercise powers of telepathy, clairvoyance or other similar powers.

Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:

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(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, any person who-

(a) with intent to deceive purports to act as spiritualistic medium or to exercise any powers of telepathy, clairvoyance or other similar powers, or

(b) in purporting to act as a spiritualistic medium or to exercise such powers as aforesaid, uses any fraudulent device, shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) A person shall not be convicted of an offence under the foregoing subsection unless it is provided that he acted for reward; and for the purposes of this section a person shall be deemed to act for reward if any money is paid, or other valuable thing given in respect of what he does, whether to him or any other person.

(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding four months or to both such fine and such imprisonment, or on conviction on indictment for a term not exceeding five hundred pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

(4) No proceedings for an offence under this section shall be brought in England and Wales except by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

(5) Nothing in subsection (1) of this section shall apply to anything done solely for the purpose of entertainment.

2. The following enactments are hereby repealed, that is to say

(a) the Witchcraft Act 1735, so far as still in force and

(b) section four of the Vagrancy Act 1824, so far as it extends to persons purporting to act as spiritualistic mediums or to exercise any powers of telepathy, clairvoyance or other similar powers, or to persons who in purporting so to act or to exercise such powers, use fraudulent devices.

3. (1) This Act may be cited as the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951
(2) This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland