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Jews Relief Act 1858

1858 CHAPTER 49

An Act to provide for the Relief of Her Majesty's Subjects professing the Jewish
Religion.
[23d July 1858]

Be it enactedby the Queen'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, as follows:

Power to either House of Parliament to modify the Form of Oath to he taken

instead of the Oaths of Allegiance, &c. by a Person professing the Jewish
Religion, to entitle him to sit and vote in such House.

Where it shall appear to either House of Parliament that a Person professing the
Jewish Religion, otherwise entitled to sit and vote in such House, is prevented
from so sitting and voting by his conscientious Objection to take the Oath which
by an Act passed or to be passed in the present Session of Parliament has been
or may be substituted for the Oaths of Allegiance, Supremacy, and Abjuration in
the Form therein required, such House, if it think fit, may resolve that
thenceforth any Person professing the Jewish Religion, in taking the said Oath
to entitle him to sit and vote as aforesaid, may omit the Words
“and I make this Declaration upon the true Faith of a Christian,”and so long as
such Resolution shall continue in force the said Oath, when taken and subscribed
by any Person professing the Jewish Religion to entitle him to sit and vote in
that House of Parliament, may be modified accordingly; and the taking and
subscribing by any Person professing the Jewish Religion of the Oath so
modified, shall, so far as respects the Title to sit and vote in such House,
have the same Force and Effect as the taking and subscribing by other Persons of
the said Oath in the Form required by the said Act.

II

As to the Form of Oath in other Cases.

In all other Cases, except for sitting in Parliament as aforesaid, or in

qualifying to exercise the Right of Presentation to any Ecclesiastical Benefice
in Scotland, whenever any of Her Majesty's Subjects professing the Jewish
Religion shall be required to take the said Oath, the Words " and I make this
Declaration upon the true Faith of a Christian " shall be omitted.

III

Act not to enable Persons professing the Jewish Religion to hold certain
Offices.

Nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to enable any

Person or Persons professing the Jewish Religion to hold or exercise the Office
of Guardians and Justices of the United Kingdom, or of Regent of the United
Kingdom, under whatever Name, Style, or Title such Office may he constituted, or
of Lord High Chancellor, Lord Keeper or Lord Commissioner of the Great Seal of
Great Britain or Ireland, or the Office of Lord Lieutenant or Deputy or other
Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, or Her Majesty's High Commissioner to
the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

IV

Rights of Presentation to any Ecclesiastical Benefice possessed by Persons

professing the Jewish Religion to devolve upon the Archbishop of Canterbury for
the Time being.
Where any Right of Presentation to any Ecclesiastical Benefice shall belong to
any Office in the Gift or Appointment of Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors,
and such Office shall be held by a Person professing the Jewish Religion, the
Right of Presentation shall devolve upon and be exercised by the Archbishop of
Canterbury for the Time being ; and it shall not be lawful for any Person
professing the Jewish Religion, directly or indirectly, to advise Her Majesty,
Her Heirs or Successors, or any Person or Persons holding or exercising the
Office of Guardians of the United Kingdom, or of Regent of the United Kingdom,
under whatever Name, Style, or Title such Office may be constituted, or the Lord
Lieutenant or Lord Deputy, or any other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland,
touching or concerning the Appointment to or Disposal of any Office or
Preferment in the United Church of England and Ireland or in the Church of
Scotland; and if such Person shall offend in the Premises he shall, being
thereof convicted by due Course of Law, be deemed guilty of a high Misdemeanor,
and disabled for ever from holding any Office, Civil or Military, under the
Crown.

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