Quakers and Moravians Act 1833

Quakers and Moravians Act 1833 ^[a]

Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to allow Quakers and Moravians to make Affirmation in all Cases where an Oath is or shall be required.
Citation	3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 49
Territorial extent	United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent	28 August 1833
Commencement	28 August 1833 [b]
Repealed	16 June 1977
Other legislation
Amended by	Quakers and Moravians Act 1838 Promissory Oaths Act 1871 Perjury Act 1911
Repealed by	Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Quakers and Moravians Act 1833 ^[a] (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. ^[1]

Subsequent developments

The whole act was repealed by section 1(1) of, and the part XIV of schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977.

Notes

1. 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.

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References

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