Section Reasons for passing this Act.
Whereas since the abolishing of Episcopal Government in Scotland those of the Episcopal Perswasion there have been frequently disturbed and interrupted in their Religious Assemblies and their Ministers prosecuted for reading the English Service in their Congregations and for administring the Sacraments according to the Form and Manner prescribed in the Liturgy of the Church of England.
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
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Act repealed, so far as relates to the imposing any penalties, forfeitures, or disabilities on any person or persons, for or on account of his or their frequenting or resorting to any episcopal chapel or meeting house in Scotland or officiating in any such chapel or meeting house, by Scottish Episcopalians Relief Act 1792 (c. 63), s. 1