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An Act for preventing certain Abuses and Profanations on the Lord’s Day, called Sunday.
Preamble
Whereas certain houses, rooms or places within the cities of London or Westminster or in the neighbourhood thereof have of late frequently been opened for publick entertainment or amusement upon the evening of the Lord’s Day, commonly called Sunday; and at other houses, rooms or places within the said cities or in the neighbourhood thereof, under pretence of enquiring into religious doctrines and explaining texts of Holy Scripture, debates have frequently been held on the evening of the Lord’s Day concerning divers texts of Holy Scripture by persons unlearned and incompetent to explain the same, to the corruption of good morals, and to the great encouragement of irreligion and profaneness:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)
C2Act amended by Sunday Entertainments Act 1932 (c. 51), s. 4, Common Informers Act 1951 (c. 39), s. 1(1), Sch. and Sunday Theatre Act 1972 (c. 26), s. 1; excluded by Licensing Act 1964 (c. 26), s. 88
C3Act excluded (E.W.) by Cinemas Act 1985 (c. 13, SIF 45A), s. 9(1)
Act excluded (E.W.) (3.1.1995) by 1994 c. 40, ss. 21, 82(2)
Act restricted (E.W.) (28.12.2000) by S.I. 2000/3372, art. 2
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