The Nonconformist Relief Act 1779 (19 Geo. 3. c. 44) was act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The act allowed any Dissenter to preach and teach on the condition that he declared he was a Protestant; took the Oaths of Allegiance and supremacy; and took the Scriptures for his rule of faith and practice. It relieved dissenting ministers from the obligation to subscribe to the Thirty-nine Articles.
Subsequent developments
The Dissenters (Ireland) Act 1817 (57 Geo. 3. c. 70) extended both the 1779 act and the Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813 (53 Geo. 3. c. 160) to Ireland.
Section 1 from the words "if he scruple" down to the words "subscribed by Protestant dissenting ministers and," and from the words "and by an Act made in the tenth year," down to the words "subscribe the declaration therein mentioned," and "so much of the rest of the act as relates to the oath and declaration mentioned in the part hereby repealed" was repealed by section 1 of, and part II of schedule one to, the Promissory Oaths Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 48), which came into force on 13 July 1871.
The whole act, so far as unrepealed, was repealed by section 1 of, and part II of the schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969, which came into force on 1 January 1970.
