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Parliament Act 1678
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IV.House of Peers and House of Commons may cause their Members to take the Oaths and subscribe the said Declaration openly in the House.
Peer sitting, &c. without taking the said Oaths, &c. disabled from voting during that Parliament. ; The like as to Members of the House of Commons.
And bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from the said First day of December it shall and may be lawfull to and for the House of Peeres and House of Commons or either of them respectively as often as they or either of them shall see occasion either in this present Parlyament or any other hereafter to be holden to order and cause all or any of the Members of their respective Houses of Parlyament openly in their respective Houses of Parlyament to take the said Oathes and to make and subscribe the said Declaration at such times and in such manner as they shall appoint. And if any Peere shall contrary to such Order made by their said House wilfully presume to sitt therein without takeing the said Oathes and subscribing the said Declaration according to the said Order, Every such Peere or Member of the House of Peeres soe presumeing to sitt shall be adjudged and is hereby declared to be uncapeable and disabled in Law to all intents and purposes whatsoever to sitt in the said House of Peeres and give any Voice therein either by Proxie or otherwise howsoever dureing that Parlyament. And if any Member or Members of the House of Commons shall contrary to such Order made by their House wilfully presume to sitt therein without takeing the said Oathes and makeing and subscribeing the said Declaration Every such Member or Members of the House of Commons soe presumeing to sitt shall be adjudged and is hereby declared to be uncapeable and disabled in Law to all intents and purposes whatsoever to sitt in the said House of Commons or give any Voice therein dureing that Parlyament.
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