Quakers_and_Moravians_Act_1833

Quakers and Moravians Act 1833

Quakers and Moravians Act 1833

United Kingdom legislation

The Quakers and Moravians Act 1833[1] (3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 49) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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The Act allowed Quaker and Moravian MPs to substitute an affirmation for an oath on their entrance to the House of Commons.[2]

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  1. [1]
    The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by the Short Titles Act 1896, section 1 and the first schedule. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  2. [2]
    Dudley Julius Medley, A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History. Sixth Edition (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925), p. 652.
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