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Parliamentary Oaths Act 1866

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Date of Act.Title of Act.Extent of Repeal.
30 Car. 2. stat. 2. c. 1.An Act for the more effectual preserving the King's Person and Government, by disabling Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament.So much as is unrepealed.
13 Will. 3. c. 6.An Act for the further Security of His Majesty's Person, and the Succession of the Crown in the Protestant Line, and for extinguishing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales and all other Pretenders, and their open and secret Abettors.Ss. 10, 11.
1 Geo. 1. stat. 2. c. 13.An Act for the further Security of His Majesty's Person and Government and the Succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret Abettors.Ss. 16, 17.
6 Geo. 3. c. 53.An Act for altering the Oath of Abjuration and the Assurance, and for amending so much of an Act of the Seventh Year of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the Improvement of the Union of the Two Kingdoms, as after the Time therein limited requires the Delivery of certain Lists and Copies therein mentioned to Persons indicted of High Treason or Misprision of Treason.So far as relates to Oaths to be taken by Members of either House of Parliament.
10 Geo. 4. c. 7.An Act for the Relief of His Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects.So far as relates to Oath's to be taken by Members of either House of Parliament.
6 & 7 Vict. c. 6.An Act to alter the Hours within which certain Oaths and Declarations are to be made and subscribed in the House of Peers.The whole Act.
21 & 22 Vict. c. 48.An Act to substitute One Oath for the Oaths of Allegiance, Supremacy, and Abjuration, and for the Relief of Her Majesty's Subjects professing the Jewish Religion.So far as relates to Oaths to be taken by Members of either House of Parliament.
21 & 22 Vict. c. 49.An Act to provide for the Relief of Her Majesty's Subjects professing the Jewish Religion.So far as relates to Oaths to be taken by Members of either House of Parliament.
22 Vict. c. 10.An Act to settle the Form of Affirmation to be made in certain Cases by Quakers and other Persons by Law permitted to make an Affirmation instead of taking an Oath.So far as relates to Oaths to be taken by Members of either House of Parliament.
23 & 24 Vict. c. 63.An Act to amend the Act of the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Years of Victoria, Chapter Forty-nine, to provide for the Relief of Her Majesty's Subjects professing the Jewish Religion.The whole Act.

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