3. c. 32) is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1791 relieving Roman Catholics of certain political, educational, and economic disabilities.

The sentiment for reform was helped along by the signing of the Edict of Versailles in France in 1787, whereby non-Catholic French subjects were given full legal status in a kingdom where Catholicism had always been the state religion.

Catholics were no longer to be summoned to take the Oath of Supremacy, or to be removed from London; the legislation of King George I, requiring them to register their estates and wills, was absolutely repealed; while the professions of counsellor and barrister at law, attorney, solicitor, and notary were opened to them.

[2] However, the act required that Catholic assemblies should be certified at quarter sessions, with officiants recorded by the clerk of the peace.

These concerned first the question of Veto on the appointment of bishops in Ireland, which it was proposed to confer on the British government, and belongs chiefly to the history of Emancipation in that country.