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Whereas it is expedient that certain Acts of Parliament made in the reign of his late Majesty King Charles the Second relating to nonconformists and conventicles, and refusing to take oaths, should be repealed, and that the laws relating to certain congregations and assemblies for religious worship, and persons teaching, preaching, or officiating therein, and resorting thereto, should be amended: Be it therefore enacted by the King’s most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after the passing of this Act an Act of Parliament made in the session of Parliament held in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of his late majesty King Charles the Second, intituled “An Act for preventing the mischiefs and dangers that my arise by certain persons called Quakers and others refusing to take lawful oaths,” and another Act Parliament made in the seventeenth year of the reign of his late Majesty King Charles the Second, intituled “An Act for restraining nonconformists from inhabiting in corporations,” and another Act of Parliament made in the twenty-second year of the reign of the late King Charles the Second, intituled “An Act to prevent and suppress seditious conventicles,” shall be and the same are hereby repealed. [Rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91. (S.L.R.)]
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