{{Short description|Act of the Parliament of Great Britain}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Use British English|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox UK legislation | short_title = Schism Act 1714 | type = Act | parliament = Parliament of Great Britain | long_title = An Act to prevent the Growth of Schism, and for the further Security of the Churches of England and Ireland as by Law established. | year = 1713 | citation = {{ubli|13 Ann. c. 7{{efn|name=StatutesOfTheRealm|reference=This is the citation in ''The Statutes of the Realm''.}}|12 Ann. St. 2. c. 7{{efn|name=StatutesAtLarge|reference=This is the citation in ''The Statutes at Large''.}}}} | territorial_extent = Great Britain | royal_assent = 25 February 1714 | commencement = 1 August 1714{{efn|Section 1.}} | repeal_date = 11 November 1718 | repealing_legislation = Religious Worship Act 1718 | related_legislation = Act of Uniformity 1662 | status = Repealed | original_text = https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_FMDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA70 | use_new_UK-LEG = yes }}
The '''Schism Act 1714''' or '''Established Church Act 1713''' (13 Ann. c. 7){{efn|name=StatutesOfTheRealm}} was a never-enforced 1714 act of the Parliament of Great Britain which was repealed in 1718. The act stipulated that anyone who wished to ''keep'' (manage or own) a public or private school, or act as tutor, must first be granted a licence from a bishop. Also, he (or she) must conform to the liturgy of the Church of England and to have taken in the past year the rites of that Church.
The act sought to constrain, convert or curtail Dissenter schools (dissenting academies), but on the day the act was due to come into force, Queen Anne died<ref>Mark A. Thomson, ''A Constitutional History of England. 1642 to 1801'' (London: Methuen, 1938), p. 276.</ref>, and the act was rarely enforced.
== Subsequent developments == Upon the Hanoverian succession in 1714 and the subsequent supremacy of Whigs, the whole act was repealed by section 1 of the Religious Worship Act 1718 (5 Geo. 1. c. 4), which came into force on 11 November 1718.<ref>Dudley Julius Medley, ''A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History. Sixth Edition'' (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925), p. 649.</ref>
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