Papists Act 1722

Papists Act 1722

Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act to oblige all Persons being Papists, in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, and all Persons in Great Britain refusing or neglecting to take the Oaths appointed for the Security of His Majesty's Person and Government, by several Acts herein mentioned, to register their Names and Real Estates.
Citation	9 Geo. 1. c. 24
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	27 May 1723
Commencement	9 October 1722 [a]
Repealed	15 July 1867
Other legislation
Amended by	Papists Act 1723
Repealed by	Statute Law Revision Act 1867
Relates to	Papists Act 1716 Taxation Act 1722
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Papists Act 1722 (9 Geo. 1. c. 24) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain, enacted after the discovery of the Jacobite Atterbury Plot. The act required landowners to take the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration, by 25 December 1723; those who declined were to register their estates by 25 March 1724 (N.S)/1723 (O.S). ^[1]

If they failed to do so they risked forfeiting their estates. ^[2]

Subsequent developments

Papists Act 1723

Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act for explaining and amending an act of the last session of parliament, intituled, an act to oblige all persons, being papists, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, and all persons in Great Britain, refusing or neglecting to take the oaths appointed for the security of His Majesty's person and government, by several acts herein mentioned, to register their names and real estates, and for enlarging the time for taking the said oaths, and making such registers, and for allowing farther time for the enrolment of deeds or wills made by papists, which have been omitted to be enrolled, pursuant to an act of the third year of his Majesty's reign; and also for giving relief to protestant lessees.
Citation	10 Geo. 1. c. 4
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	19 March 1724
Commencement	9 January 1724 [a]
Repealed	15 July 1867
Other legislation
Amends	Papists Act 1722
Repealed by	Statute Law Revision Act 1867
Relates to	Papists Act 1716 Papists Act 1732
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The act was revoked by the Papists Act 1723 (10 Geo. 1. c. 4). ^[3]

The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict.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. Under the calendar used in Britain at the time, the new year did not begin until March 26. Thus, what the British act noted as "25 March 1723" was the last day of 1723, three months after 25 December 1723.
2. 1723 act at foda.org.uk
3. Danby Pickering, The Statutes at Large: From the Ninth Year of King George I. to the Second Year of King George II., Vol. XV (Cambridge, 1765), p. 100.