The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-14 00:00:00

NO MEMBER CAPABLE OF SITTING OF VOTING UNTIL lIE

MAS TAKEN THE OATH.

44. From and after the said thirteenth day of November no
Member of the House of Commons shall be capable of sitting
or voting in Parliament, unless he shall first solemnly and
publicly take and subscribe the oath hereby appointed before
the same persons and at the same times and places as the oaths
now required by law are respectively directed to be taken and
subscribed ; and any person who shall sit and vote in Parlia-
ment as a Member of the House of Commons without having
first taken and subscribed in manner aforesaid the oath by
this Act appointed, shall be subject to the same penalties, for-
feitures, and disabilities, and the offence of so sitting or
voting shall be followed and attended by and with the same
consequences as are by law enacted and provided in the case
of a person sitting or voting in Parliament without taking
and subscribing the oaths now required by law; provided
always that no Member of the House of Commons, having
before the said thirtieth day of November taken the oaths of
allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration, or the oath appointed
by the said Act of the tenth year of King George the Fourth
as a qualification for sitting and voting as aforesaid, shall be,
required to take and subscribe the oath hereby appointed,
unless and until he would be by law required to take the ,
said oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration, or the
oath appointed by the said Act of the tenth year of King
George the Fourth, in case this Act had not been passed.
FORM OF AFFIRMATION FOR QUAKERip &C.
45. Provided also, that every person of the persuasion of
the people called Quakers, and every other person by law
permitted to make his solemn affirmation or declaration in-
stead of taking an oath, may, instead of taking and sub-
scribing the oath hereby appointed, make and subscribe
a solemn affirmation in the form of oath hereby appointed,
substituting the words " declare and affirm" for the word.
" swear," and the word " affirmation" for the word " oath,'
and omitting the words "So help me God."
ENACTMENTS CONCERNING PROPERTY QUALIFICATION OF
.MEMBERS FOR ENGLAND AND IRELAND REPEALED.
46. And whereas by the several Acts and parts of Acts
hereinafter mentioned provisions have been made for re-
quiring, on the part of Members of the House of Common!
elected for England and Ireland, respectively, certain qaali
cations in respect of property; and whereas it is expedient
that the said provisions should be repealed :
The several Acts and parts of Acts hereinafter mentioned,
that is to say, an Act of the ninth year of the reign of Queen
ueen
Anne, intituled " An Act for securing the FreedomtoinPar-
liamentte by the farther Qualifying the Membersto
of
tt
House of Commons ;" an Act of the thirty-t'
cl Ainear Act e
reign of King George the Second, intitulea __ to
enforce andrender more Effectual the Laws relating to3the
Qualification of Members to sit in the HouselDf,f‘..i.nellnens ;"
an Act of the fifty-ninth year of the reign of g.George
the Third, intituled " An Act for further. regulating the
Qualification of Members to serve in the United Parliament
of Great Britain and Ireland ;" and an Act of the session of
Parliament holden in the first and second years of the reign of
her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to amend the Laws
relating to the Qualification of Members 3 to serve in
Parliament ." and so much of an Act of I arliament of Eng-
land, and of an Act of Parliament of Ireland, respectively
qualifications on f‘
Great
passed in the fortieth year of fing George the Third, and
Actdes
that f for tthhee
respectively intituled,
Britain and Ireland," o"pAronvi
Ireland of the property of Members elected on the United 111
Ireland to sit in the House of Commons of the f
countiesr e f
G r andea
Great
Kingdom shall be respectively the same as were then
provided by law in
the cars of elections for
p at
cities And boroughs respectively in
Britain called England, unless any other proviso
thereafter be made in that respeceby Act of Parliamenti s should
u lodf
thelUnited Kingdom ,'and so muchlof an Act of the forty-first
year of the reign of King George the Third, intituled " A n
o' May,
Act for regulating until the first dayone thousand
eight hundred and two, the trial of Controverted Llectioas