Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813
| Act of Parliament | |
 Toleration Act 1689 | |
Status: Repealed | |
|---|---|
| Text of statute as originally enacted |
The Act
Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which amended its blasphemy laws and granted toleration for Unitarian worship.[6]
- Section 1 amended the non-Trinitarians among the Protestant dissenterswhose practices would be tolerated.
- Section 2 repealed the provision of the educated as a Christian who denied the Trinity.
- Section 3 repealed two Acts of the punishable by death: the Act against Blasphemy 1661 and Act against Blasphemy 1695.
The
Dissenters (Ireland) Act 1817 (57 Geo 3 c 70) extended the Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813 to Ireland, and amended the Prohibition of Disturbance of Worship Act 1719 (passed by the Parliament of Ireland)[7] in the same way as the 1813 Act had amended the 1689 Act.[8]
The Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813 was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1873.[9]
Notes
- ^ Hansard HC 5 May 1813 s1 v5 c1147
- ^ Walker. A Legal History of Scotland. 1988. Volume 6. p 409.
- ^ Krueger. "Clerical". Tucker (ed). A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 2014. p 141.
- ^ Amherst D Tyssen. The Law of Charitable Bequests. 1888. p 104.
- ^ Maclear J.F., Church and State in the Modern Age: a documentary history 1995
- ^ Dudley Julius Medley, A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History. Sixth Edition (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925), p. 653.
- ^ An act for exempting the protestant dissenters of this kingdom from certain penalties, to which they are now subject
- ^ An Act to relieve persons impugning the doctrine of the Holy Trinity from certain penalties, in Ireland
- ^ Statute Law Revision Act 1873, Schedule
