Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813

The Act 53 Geo. 3. c. 160, sometimes called the Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813,[2] the Trinitarian Act 1812,[3] the Unitarian Relief Act,[4] the Trinity Act, the Unitarian Toleration Bill, or Mr William Smith's Bill (after Whig politician William Smith),[5] was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which amended its blasphemy laws and granted toleration for Unitarian worship.[6]

Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to relieve Persons who impugn the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity from certain Penalties.
Citation53 Geo. 3. c. 160
Introduced byWilliam Smith[1] (Commons)
Territorial extent United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent21 July 1813
Repealed5 August 1873
Other legislation
Repealed byStatute Law Revision Act 1873
Relates to
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

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The Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813 was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1873.[9]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 edit

  1. ^ Hansard HC 5 May 1813 s1 v5 c1147
  2. ^ Walker. A Legal History of Scotland. 1988. Volume 6. p 409.
  3. ^ Krueger. "Clerical". Tucker (ed). A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 2014. p 141.
  4. ^ Amherst D Tyssen. The Law of Charitable Bequests. 1888. p 104.
  5. ^ Maclear J.F., Church and State in the Modern Age: a documentary history 1995
  6. ^ Dudley Julius Medley, A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History. Sixth Edition (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925), p. 653.
  7. ^ An act for exempting the protestant dissenters of this kingdom from certain penalties, to which they are now subject
  8. ^ An Act to relieve persons impugning the doctrine of the Holy Trinity from certain penalties, in Ireland
  9. ^ Statute Law Revision Act 1873, Schedule

Further reading edit

  • Archibald John Stephens. The Statutes Relating to the Ecclesiastical and Eleemosynary Institutions of England, Wales, Ireland, India, and the Colonies. 1845. Volume 1. Pages 1066 and 1067.
  • John Shortt. The Law Relating to Works of Literature and Art. Second Edition. 1884. Pages 368 and 369.