Indemnity Act 1727

Indemnity Act 1727

Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act for indemnifying Persons who have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments within the Time limited by Law, and for allowing further Time for that Purpose; and for repealing so much of Two Acts of Parliament therein mentioned, as requires Persons to qualify themselves to continue in Offices or Employments for the Space of Six Months after the Demise of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors.
Citation	1 Geo. 2. St. 2. c. 23
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	28 May 1728
Commencement	23 January 1728 [a]
Repealed	15 July 1867
Other legislation
Amends	Regency Act 1705 Succession to the Crown Act 1707
Repealed by	Statute Law Revision Act 1867
Relates to	Test Act 1673 Corporation Act 1661
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Indemnity Act 1727 (1 Geo. 2. St. 2. c. 23) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed during the reign of George II.

It relieved Nonconformists from the requirements in the Test Act 1673 (25 Cha. 2. c. 2) and the Corporation Act 1661 (13 Cha. 2 St. 2. c. 1) that public office holders must have taken the sacrament of the Lord's Supper in an Anglican church. ^[1]

Subsequent developments

The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 59).

Notes

1. Start of session.

References

1. E. Neville Williams, The Eighteenth-Century Constitution, 1688–1815: Documents and Commentary (Cambridge University Press, 1965), pp. 341–343.