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Quakers and Moravians Act 1833
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act to allow Quakers and Moravians to make Aflirmation in all Cases where an Oath is or shall be required.
Citation3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 49
Dates
Royal assent28 August 1833
Other legislation
Amended byPromissory Oaths Act 1871
Repealed byStatute Law (Repeals) Act 1977
Status: Repealed

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

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

Notes

  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. Dudley Julius Medley, A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History. Sixth Edition (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925), p. 652.
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