The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1793 (33 Geo. 3. c. 21 (Ir.)) was an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, implicitly repealing some of the Irish Penal Laws and relieving Roman Catholics of certain political, educational, and economic disabilities.
Section 8 of the 1793 act, allowing Catholics to be professors at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, was superseded by an 1800 act allowing all Christians.[1][2] Other restrictions introduced in 1793 were virtually repealed or superseded by the 1829 act.[2] Particular sections were later explicitly repealed repealed as follows:[2]
1 2 3 Cullinan, William Fitzpatrick, ed. (1885). The Irish statutes revised edition: 3 Edward II to the Union, AD 1310–1800. By authority. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. p.liv.
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