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Preachers in and persons resorting to religious assemblies certified under this Act, &c., shall be exempt from same penalties as persons taking oaths under 1 will. & Mar. c. 18.
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4. And . . . from and after the passing of this Act every person who shall teach or preach at or officiate in or shall resort to any congregation or congregations, assembly or assemblies, for religious worship of protestants, whose place of meeting shall be duly certified according to the provisions of this Act or any other Act or Acts of Parliament relating to the certifying and registering of places of religious worship, shall be exempt from all such pains and penalties under any Act or Acts of Parliament relating to religious worship as any person who shall have taken the oaths and made the declaration prescribed by or mentioned in an Act made in the first year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled “An Act for exempting their Majesties protestant subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the penalties of certain laws,” or any Act amending the said Act, is by law exempt, as fully and effectually as if all such pains and penalities, and the several Acts enforcing the same, were recited in this Act, and such exemptions as aforesaid were severally and separately enacted in relation thereto.
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