The Submission of the Clergy Act 1533 (25 Hen. 8 c. 19) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was one of the laws passed by the Reformation Parliament that subjugated the Church of England to the Crown as part of Henry VIII's break with Rome.
, sections 1 and 3 of the act are still in force.Section 1 of, and Part II of the schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969 (c. 52) repealed the whole act to the extent that it had not already been repealed, except for sections 1 and 3. Section 1 of the act requires royal assent for the making of laws, including canon law, by the Convocations of Canterbury and York. Section 3 of the act makes laws passed by the Convocations invalid to the extent they contradict the law of the land or the royal prerogative. Section 1(3) of the Synodical Government Measure 1969 (No. 2), which established the General Synod of the Church of England, applies these sections to the General Synod.
Subsequent developments In section 4 and 5 of the act, the words of commencement were repealed by section 1 of, and schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 62), which came into force on 30 July 1948.
In section 4 of the act, the words from "but that all manner of appelles" to the end, and section 6 of the act, were repealed by section 87 of, and the fifth schedule to, the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963 (No. 1), which came into force on 1 March 1965.
Section 5 of the act was repealed by section 13 of, and part I of schedule 4 to, the Criminal Law Act 1967, which came into force on 21 July 1967
Section 3 of the act (which provides that no Canons shall be contrary to the Royal Prerogative or the customs, laws or statutes of this realm) does not apply to any rule of ecclesiastical law relating to any matter for which provision may be made by Canon in pursuance of the Church of England (Worship and Doctrine) Measure 1974 (No. 3)The Church of England (Worship and Doctrine) Measure 1974, section 6(1) or section 1 of the Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1976 (No. 3).The Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1976, section 1(3)
The whole act, so far as unrepealed, except sections 1 and 3, was repealed by section 1 of, and part II of the schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969, which came into force on 1 January 1970. The repeal by the 1969 of section 2 of the Act of Supremacy (1 Eliz. 1. c. 1) does not affect the continued operation, so far as unrepealed, of the act.
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References Halsbury's Statutes
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