VIIAct not to extend (during this Parliament) to Persons holding such Offices or Places; but no more than 20 such Persons shall sit.

Provided always, and it is hereby enacted and declared, That nothing in this Act shall, during the Continuance of this present Parliament, extend or be construed to extend or relate to, or shall exclude or disable, any Person or Persons holding Offices or Places of Profit under the Crown of Ireland ; so nevertheless, that no greater Number than Twenty of the Persons holding such Offices or Places as aforesaid, shall be capable of sitting in the said House of Commons; and so that no Person holding any such Office or Place shall be capable of being elected, or of sitting in the said House, while there are Twenty Persons holding such Offices or Places sitting in the said House.