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Places of Religious Worship Act 1812

Places of Religious Worship Act 1812[a]
Long titleAn Act to repeal certain Acts, and amend other Acts relating to Religious Worship and Assemblies and Persons teaching or preaching therein.
Citation52 Geo. 3. c. 155
Territorial extent United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent29 July 1812
Commencement29 July 1812[b]
Repealed16 June 1977
Other legislation
AmendsToleration Act 1688
Repeals/revokes
Amended by
Repealed byStatute Law (Repeals) Act 1977
Relates toPlaces of Worship Registration Act 1855
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Places of Religious Worship Act 1812[a] (52 Geo. 3. c. 155) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It updated the system of registration established by the Toleration Act 1688 (1 Will. & Mar. c. 18) for places of worship used by Protestant Dissenters except Quakers and set up a system of punishments for offenders against the act.[1]

Provisions

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Section 1 of the act repealed the Quakers Act 1662 (14 Cha. 2. c. 1)[c], the Five Mile Act 1665 (17 Cha. 2. c. 2) and the Conventicles Act 1670 (22 Cha. 2. c. 1).[2][3]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b The citation of this act by this short title was authorised by section 1 of, and the first schedule to, the Short Titles Act 1896. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  2. ^ The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793.
  3. ^ This is the citation in The Statutes of the Realm.

References

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  1. ^ The statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: 1812, p. 1069-1071, at Google Books
  2. ^ "Dissenting Academies Project-Historical Information-Legislation". Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature in English. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  3. ^ Charles F. Mullett, 'The Legal Position of the English Protestant Dissenters, 1767-1812', Virginia Law Review, Vol. 25, No. 6 (Apr., 1939), pp. 671-697