The Qualification for Employments Act 1726 (13 Geo. 1, c. 29) was an
Act of Parliament passed by the
Parliament of Great Britain
The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in May 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. The Acts ratified the treaty of Union which created a new unified Kingdo ...
during the reign of
George I. This was the first Indemnity Act that relieved
Nonconformist
Nonconformity or nonconformism may refer to:
Culture and society
* Insubordination, the act of willfully disobeying an order of one's superior
*Dissent, a sentiment or philosophy of non-agreement or opposition to a prevailing idea or entity
** ...
s from the requirements in the
Test Act 1673
The Test Acts were a series of English penal laws that served as a religious test for public office and imposed various civil disabilities on Roman Catholics
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and the
Corporation Act 1661 that public office holders must have taken the
sacrament of the Lord's Supper in an
Anglican
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...
church.
[K. R. M. Short, 'The English Indemnity Acts 1726-1867', ''Church History'', Vol. 42, No. 3 (Sep., 1973), p. 366.]
The Act was intended to give "further time to persons on board the fleet, or beyond the seas in his Majesty's service to qualify themselves for the legal enjoyment of offices and employments, and for the better ascertaining of such time".
Nonconformists were described as those who were "zealously affected to his person and government, and the protestant succession to his royal house".
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