This article is about the Irish Act of Parliament. For the British Act of Parliament, see Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791.
United Kingdom legislation
Roman Catholic Relief Act 1793
Parliament of Ireland
Long title
An Act for the relief of his majesty's Roman Catholic subjects of Ireland.
Citation
33 Geo. 3. c. 21 (Ir.)
Introduced by
Robert Hobart, Chief Secretary for Ireland
Dates
Royal assent
9 April 1793
Repealed
1953; 1983
Other legislation
Amended by
Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829
Repealed by
Statute Law Revision Act 1953
Statute Law Revision Act 1983
Relates to
Popery Act 1704
Status: Repealed
History of passage through Parliament
Text of statute as originally enacted
The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1793 (33 Geo. 3. c. 21 (Ir.)) was an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, implicitly repealing some of the Irish Penal Laws and relieving Roman Catholics of certain political, educational, and economic disabilities.
The Act was introduced by the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Robert Hobart, two years after the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791, an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The Irish Act included certain local provisions such as allowing Catholics to take degrees at Trinity College Dublin. Catholic schools had already been permitted again by the Catholic Relief Act 1782, subject to the teachers taking the Oath of Allegiance and obtaining a license from the local Church of Ireland bishop. The 1793 act abolished many of the restrictions of the 1704 Popery Act and replaced others with less onerous ones. The act also repealed the provisions of the Disfranchising Act 1728, which had prohibited Catholics from voting in elections to the Irish House of Commons. However, it did not remove the terms of the parliamentary oath which prohibited Catholics from sitting in the Parliament of Ireland; section 9 of the 1793 act gave a long list of offices in the Dublin Castle administration for which the existing oaths, anathema to Catholics, remained obligatory. This was superseded by the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (the kingdoms having been joined in 1801 by the Acts of Union 1800). Section 12 of the 1829 act had a much shorter list of excluded offices, in particular allowing Catholic MPs.
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