Security of King and Government Act 1695

XV. After the Determination of the present Parliament, Members taking the Oaths, &c. of 1 W. & M. c. 8. to subscribe the said Association. Refusing, disabled to sit.

New Writ.

And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the Determination of this present Parliament every Person that shall hereafter be chosen a Member of the House of Co[m]mons when hee takes the Oath and subscribes the Declaration according to an Act made in the First Yeare of King William and Queen Mary shall alsoe att the same time subscribe the Association in this Act prescribed And that every Person refuseing so to doe shall bee adjudged and is hereby declared to bee uncapable and disabled in Law to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever to sitt in the said House of Co[m]mons or give any Voice therein dureing that Parliament And that in such case a new Writt or Writts shall issue out of the High Court of Chancery by Warrant or Warrants from the Speaker of the House of Co[m]mons for the time being and by Order of the said House for the Election of a new Member or Members to serve in the House of Commons in the Place or Places of such Member or Members soe disabled to all Intents and Purposes as if such Member or Members were naturally dead.