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RELIGIOUS DISABILITIES ACT 1846

RELIGIOUS DISABILITIES ACT 1846 - LONG TITLE

An Act to relieve Her Majesty's Subjects from certain Penalties and
Disabilities in regard to Religious Opinions.{1}
[18th August 1846]
S.1 rep. by SLR 1875; SLR (NI) 1954; SL(R) 1969

RELIGIOUS DISABILITIES ACT 1846 - SECT 2
Jews to be subject to the same laws as Protestant dissenters in
respect to schools, places of worship, &c.

2. Her Majesty's subjects professing the Jewish religion, in respect
to their schools, places for religious worship, education, and
charitable purposes, and the property held therewith, shall be
subject to the same laws as Her Majesty's Protestant subjects
dissenting from the Church of England are subject to, and not
further or otherwise.

S.3 rep. by SLR 1875

RELIGIOUS DISABILITIES ACT 1846 - SECT 4
Disturbing religious assemblies.

4. All laws now in force against the wilfully and maliciously or
contemptuously disquieting or disturbing any meeting, assembly, or
congregation of persons assembled for religious worship, permitted or
authorized by any former Act or Acts of Parliament, or the
disturbing, molesting, or misusing any preacher, teacher, or person
officiating at such meeting, assembly, or congregation, or any person
or persons there assembled, shall apply respectively to all meetings,
assemblies, or congregations whatsoever of persons lawfully assembled
for religious worship, and the preachers, teachers, or persons
officiating as such last-mentioned meetings, assemblies, or
congregations, and the persons there assembled.

S.5 rep. by SLR 1875


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