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| Long title | An Act for the relief of his majesty's Roman Catholic subjects of Ireland. |
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| Citation | 33 Geo. 3. c. 21 (I) |
| Introduced by | Robert Hobart,Chief Secretary for Ireland |
| Territorial extent | Ireland |
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| Royal assent | 9 April 1793 |
| Commencement | 10 January 1793[a] |
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Status: Repealed | |
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TheRoman Catholic Relief Act 1793 (33 Geo. 3. c. 21 (I)) was anact of theParliament of Ireland, implicitly repealing some of theIrish Penal Laws and relievingRoman Catholics of certain political, educational, and economic disabilities.
The act was introduced by theChief Secretary for Ireland,Robert Hobart, two years after theRoman Catholic Relief Act 1791, anAct of theParliament of Great Britain. The Irish Act included certain local provisions such as allowing Catholics to take degrees atTrinity College Dublin. Catholic schools had already been permitted again by the Catholic Relief Act 1782, subject to the teachers taking theOath of Allegiance and obtaining a license from the localChurch of Ireland bishop. The 1793 act abolished many of the restrictions of the 1704Popery Act (2 Anne c. 6 (I)) and replaced others with less onerous ones. The act also repealed the provisions of theDisfranchising Act 1727 (1 Geo. 2), which had prohibited Catholics from voting in elections to theIrish House of Commons. However, it did not remove the terms of the parliamentary oath which prohibited Catholics from sitting in theParliament of Ireland; section 9 of the 1793 act gave a long list of offices in theDublin Castle administration for which the existing oaths, anathema to Catholics, remained obligatory. This was superseded by theRoman Catholic Relief Act 1829 (10 Geo. 4. c. 7) , an act of theParliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (the kingdoms having been joined in 1801 by theActs of Union 1800). Section 12 of the 1829 act had a much shorter list of excluded offices, in particular allowing Catholic MPs.
Section 8 of the 1793 act, allowing Catholics to beprofessors at theRoyal College of Physicians of Ireland, was superseded by an 1800 act allowing all Christians.[1][2] Other restrictions introduced in 1793 were virtually repealed or superseded by the 1829 act.[2] Particular sections were later explicitly repealed as follows:[2]
| Sections | Repealed by |
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| 12 | Marriages by Roman Catholics (Ireland) Act 1833[3] |
| 14 | Religious Disabilities Act 1846[4] |
| 6 (in part) | Promissory Oaths Act 1871[5] |
| 7 (in relation toTrinity College Dublin) | University of Dublin Tests Act 1873[6] |
| 1–6, 10, 11, 13 | Statute Law Revision (Ireland) Act 1879[7] |
The whole act was repealed inUnited Kingdom law (as regardsNorthern Ireland) by theStatute Law Revision Act 1953 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2. c. 5) (passed by Westminster rather than Stormont).[8] It was repealed inRepublic of Ireland law by theStatute Law Revision Act 1983.[9]
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