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Cursing and Swearing Act 1823

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Anno Regni GEORGII IV. Britanniarum Regis,Quarto. An Act to amend an Act passed in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty KingGeorge the Second, intituled An Act more effectually to prevent profane Cursing and Swearing .

(4 Geo. 4) C A P. XXXI.

[30th May 1823]

'WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty KingGeorge the Second, intituled An Act more effectually to prevent profane Cursing and Swearing , it is amongst other Things provided, that the said Act shall be publicly read Four several Times in the Year in all Parish Churches and Public Chapels, by the Parson, Vicar or Curate of the respective Parishes or Chapels, immediately after Morning or Evening Prayer, on Four several Sundays ; (that is to say,) the Sunday next after the Twenty fifth Day of March , Twenty fourth Day of June , Twenty ninth Day ofSeptember , and Twenty fifth Day of December in every Year; or in case Divine Service shall not be performed in any such Church or Chapel on any of the Sundays before mentioned, then upon the First Sunday after any of the said quarterly Days on which Divine Service shall happen to be performed in any such Church or Chapel, upon pain of forfeiting the Sum of Five Pounds for every such Omission and Neglect, to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Offender's Goods and Chattels, by virtue of a Warrant under the Hand and Seal of any one Justice, Mayor, Bailiff or other Chief Magistrate as aforesaid: And Whereas it is expedient that the above recited Provision should be repealed;' Be it therefore enacted by...

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