Section 17 provides that nothing in the Act shall make it lawful to establish a society of persons professing the Roman Catholic religion and that all uses, trusts and dispositions which would have been deemed superstitious and unlawful before the 24th of June 1791 shall continue to be so deemed. 10 Geo. IV. Ch. 7 (1829) (The Roman Catholic Relief Act, 1829, generally known as "The Catholic Emancipation Act"): Section 26 enacts that if any priest exercises any of the rites of the Roman Catholic religion or wears the habits of his Order save within the usual place of worship of the Roman Catholic religion or private house he shall forfeit 501. for each such offence. Section 28 provides that members of religious orders must register with the clerk of the peace of the county and forfeit 501. for every month during which they remain in the United Kingdom without having so registered. Section 29 provides that any member of a religious order coming into this realm is to be banished for the term of his natural life. Section 30 permits any such persons being natural-born subjects to return to this Kingdom provided they register under section 28 above. Section 31 enables the Secretary of State to grant licences to such persons to remain in the United Kingdom for not more than six months. Section 32 provides for an annual return of such licences. Section 33 provides that any such person admitting any other person to become a member of a religious order shall be guilty of a misdemeanour. Section 34 provides that any person so admitted shall be sentenced to banishment for life. Section 35 provides for the deportation of a banished person not departing within thirty days after sentence. Section 36 provides that any person sentenced to be banished and found at large after the end of three months shall be transported for life. 2 & 3 Will. IV. c. 115 (The Roman Catholic Charities Act, 1832): Section 4 continues the provisions of the Roman Catholic Relief Act, 1829 (as above), respecting the suppression of the religious orders. 7 & 8 Vict. c. 97 (The Charitable Donations and Bequests (Ireland) Act, 1844): Section 15 continues the provisions of section 17 of the Roman Catholic Relief Act, 1791 (as above). 23 & 24 Vict. c. 134 (The Roman Catholic Charities Act, 1860): Section 7 continues the provisions of the Roman Catholic Relief Act, 1829 (as above), respecting the suppression of the religious orders. A BILL TO Provide for the further relief of His Majesty's BE E it 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, 5 as follows: A.D. 1926 1. The enactments specified in the Schedule to this Repeal of Act (being enactments affecting the civil and religious enactments. liberties of His Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects) are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the said 10 Schedule. 2. This Act may be cited as the Roman Catholic Short title. Relief Act, 1926. 31 Geo. 3. The Roman Catholic Relief Sections eleven and seven teen. Act, 1791. tions twenty-eight to 15 The Schedule. The Roman Catholic Chari- Section four. ties Act, 1832. The Charitable Donations and Bequests (Ireland) Section fifteen from " Pro- 20 The Roman Catholic Chari- Section seven. |