Nonconformist Relief Act 1779
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| Long title | An act for the further relief of protestant dissenting ministers and schoolmasters. | ||||||||||||
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| Citation | 19 Geo. 3. c. 44 | ||||||||||||
| Territorial extent | Great Britain | ||||||||||||
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| Royal assent | 18 May 1779 | ||||||||||||
| Commencement | 26 November 1778[b] | ||||||||||||
| Repealed | 1 January 1970 | ||||||||||||
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Status: Repealed | |||||||||||||
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The Nonconformist Relief Act 1779[a] (19 Geo. 3. c. 44) was act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The act allowed any Dissenter to preach and teach on the condition that he declared he was a Protestant; took the Oaths of Allegiance and supremacy; and took the Scriptures for his rule of faith and practice.[1][2] It relieved dissenting ministers from the obligation to subscribe to the Thirty-nine Articles.
Subsequent developments
[edit]| Dissenters (Ireland) Act 1817 | |||||||||||
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| Long title | An Act to relieve Persons who impugn the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity from certain Penalties. | ||||||||||
| Citation | 57 Geo. 3. c. 70 | ||||||||||
| Territorial extent | United Kingdom | ||||||||||
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| Royal assent | 7 July 1817 | ||||||||||
| Commencement | 7 July 1817[c] | ||||||||||
| Repealed | 5 August 1873 | ||||||||||
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Status: Repealed | |||||||||||
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The Dissenters (Ireland) Act 1817 (57 Geo. 3. c. 70) extended both the 1779 act and the Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813 (53 Geo. 3. c. 160) to Ireland.
Section 1 from the words "if he scruple" down to the words "subscribed by Protestant dissenting ministers and," and from the words "and by an Act made in the tenth year," down to the words "subscribe the declaration therein mentioned," and "so much of the rest of the act as relates to the oath and declaration mentioned in the part hereby repealed" was repealed by section 1 of, and part II of schedule one to, the Promissory Oaths Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 48), which came into force on 13 July 1871.[3]
The whole act, so far as unrepealed, was repealed by section 1 of, and part II of the schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969, which came into force on 1 January 1970.[4]
Notes
[edit]- 1 2 The citation of this act by this short title was authorised by section 1 of, and the first schedule to, the Short Titles Act 1896. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
- ↑ Start of session.
- ↑ The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793.
References
[edit]- ↑ Dudley Julius Medley, A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History. Sixth Edition (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925), p. 650.
- ↑ Mark A. Thomson, A Constitutional History of England. 1642 to 1801 (London: Methuen, 1938), p. 406.
- ↑ "Promissory Oaths Act 1871", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, Vict/34-35 c. 48
- ↑ "Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1969 c. 52