Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1701 (c. 6)

XI. Proviso for Persons having Office of Inheritance, acting by Deputy,

according to Stat.; 25 Car. II. c. 2. § 9. and approved by the King

[X1 Provided always That neither this Act nor any Thing therein contained shall extend be judged or interpreted to take away or make void any Office of Inheritance so as such Person or Persons having an Office of Inheritance do or shall substitute and appoint his or their Deputy or Deputies according to a Proviso in the Act made in the Five and twentieth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second intituled An Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants and so as such Deputy or Deputies do take and subscribe the Oath in and by this [X2 present] Act required and expressed and so as such Deputy or Deputies be from time to time approved of by the Kings Majestie under His Privy Signet]

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X1 Annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule.

X2 interlined on the Roll.