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ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF ACT 1829 - SECT 18

No Roman Catholic to advise the Crown in the appointment to offices in the established churches.

18. It shall not be lawful for any person professing the Roman Catholic
religion directly or indirectly to advise His Majesty, or any person or
persons holding or exercising the office of guardians of the United Kingdom,
or of regent of the United Kingdom, under whatever name, style, or title such
office may be constituted,..., touching or concerning the appointment to or
disposal of any office or preferment in the ... Church of England..., or in
the Church of Scotland; and if any such person shall offend in the premises,
he shall, being thereof convicted by due course of law, be deemed guilty of a
high misdemeanor, and disabled for ever from holding any office, civil or
military, under the Crown.

Ss.1937 rep. by 1871 c.48 s.1 sch.1 Pt.II; SLR 1890; SLR 1953; SL(R) 1978


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