Nonconformist Relief Act 1779
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1779 c. 44 |
(19 Geo. 3) C A P. XLIV.
'WHEREAS, by an Actmade in the first Year of the Reign of KingWilliam and Queen Mary , intituled, An Act for exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects, dissenting from the Church of England, from the Penalties of certain Laws , Persons dissenting from the Church of England , in holy Orders, or pretended holy Orders, or pretending to holy Orders, and Preachers or Teachers of any Congregation of Dissenting Protestants, are required, in order to be intitled to certain Exemptions, Benefits, Privileges, and Advantages, to declare their Approbation of, and to subscribe, the Articles of Religion mentioned in the Statute made in the thirteenth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (except as in the said Act, made in the first Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary , is excepted): And whereas many such Persons scruple to declare their Approbation of, and to subscribe, the said Articles not excepted as aforesaid: For giving Ease to such scrupulous Persons in the Exercise of Religion,' may it please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliamentassembled, and by the Authority of the same, That every Person dissenting from the Church ofEngland , in holy Orders, or pretended holy Orders, or pretending to holy Orders, being a Preacher or Teacher of any Congregation of dissenting Protestants, who, if he scruple to declare and subscribe as aforesaid, shall take the Oaths, and make and subscribe the Declaration against Popery, required by the said Act, in the first Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary , to be taken, made, and subscribed by Protestant Dissenting Ministers, and shall also make and subscribe a Declaration in the Words following; videlicet ,
'IA. B. do solemnly declare, in the Presence of Almighty God, that I am a Christian and a Protestant, and as such, that I believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, as commonly received among Protestant Churches, do contain the revealed Will of God; and that I do receive the same as the Rule of my Doctrine and Practice.'
shall be, and every such Person is hereby declared to be, intitled to all the Exemptions, Benefits, Privileges, and Advantages, granted to Protestant...
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