Universities Tests Act 1871
1 Short title.
2 Interpretation of terms.
3 Persons taking lay academical degrees or holding lay academical or collegiate offices not to be required to subscribe any formulary of faith, &c.
4 Act not to interfere with lawfully established system of religious instruction, worship, and discipline.
5 Religious instruction.
6 Morning and Evening Prayer to be used as heretofore, but an abridgment may be used on week days on request of governing body.
7 Attendance at lectures.
8 Repeal.
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Universities Tests Act 1871

1871 c.26

An Act to alter the law respecting Religious Tests in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Durham, and in the Halls and Colleges of those Universities.

Whereas it is expedient that the benefits of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Durham, and of the colleges and halls now subsisting therein, as places of religion and learning, should be rendered freely accessible to the nation:

And whereas, by means of divers restrictions, tests, and disabilities, many of Her Majesty’s subjects are debarred from the full enjoyment of the same:

And whereas it is expedient that such restrictions, tests, and disabilities should be removed, under proper safeguards for the maintenance of religious instruction and worship in the said universities and the colleges and halls now subsisting within the same: