The Places of Religious Worship Act 1812 (

52 Geo. 3 This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1812. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain or of ...

. c. 155) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It updated the

Toleration Act 1688 The Toleration Act 1688 (1 Will & Mary c 18), also referred to as the Act of Toleration, was an Act of the Parliament of England. Passed in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, it received royal assent on 24 May 1689. The Act allowed for f ...

's system of registration for places of worship used by Protestant Dissenters except Quakers and set up a system of punishments for offenders against the Act. It also repealed the

Five Mile Act 1665 The Five Mile Act, or Oxford Act, or Nonconformists Act 1665, was an Act of the Parliament of England (17 Charles II c. 2), passed in 1665 with the long title "An Act for restraining Non-Conformists from inhabiting in Corporations". It was one ...

and the Conventicles Act 1670.Charles F. Mullett, 'The Legal Position of the English Protestant Dissenters, 1767-1812', '' Virginia Law Review'', Vol. 25, No. 6 (Apr., 1939), pp. 671-697

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