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332 by this Act to be elected, shall presume to sit or vote as a Member of the said House of Commons, such Person or Persons so sitting or voting shall incur such Pains, Penalties, and Forfeitures, as are inflicted or imposed by the several Acts of Parliament heretofore passed in Great Britain or Ireland for disabling or incapacitating such Persons from sitting in the Parliaments of Great Britain or Ireland respectively; and if such Person or Persons shall be disabled or incapacitated by the having, holding, or accepting of any Office, Employment, or Place of Profit, in this Act enumerated and particularized, then and in such Case such Person or Persons so sitting or voting, shall forfeit the Sum of Five hundred Pounds for every Day in which he shall sit or vote in the said House; to be recovered by such Person as shall sue for the same in any Court of Record in any Part of the said United Kingdom, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, wherein no Essoign, Protection, or Wager of Law shall be allowed, and only One Imparlance.

VII. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted and declared, That nothing in this Act shall, during the Continuance of this present Parliament, extend or be construed to extend or relate to, or shall exclude or disable, any Person or Persons holding Offices or Places of Profit under the Crown of Ireland; so nevertheless, that no greater Number than Twenty of the Persons holding such Offices or Places as aforesaid, shall be capable of sitting in the said House of Commons; and so that no Person holding any such Office or Place shall be capable of being elected, or of sitting in the said House, while there are Twenty Persons holding such Offices or Places sitting in the said House.}}

VIII. Provided also, and it is hereby further enacted and declared, That nothing in this Act shall extend or be construed to exclude any Person having or holding any Office, Place, or Employment for Life, or for so long as he shall behave himself well in his Office (other than and except the Commissioners of Imprest Accounts, and all Persons concerned in the managing, collecting, or farming of any Sums' of Money, Duties, or other Aids granted or to be granted to His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors); any Thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

IX. Provided always, That if any Person being chosen a Member of the House of Commons shall, from and after the passing of this Act, accept of any Office of Profit whatever, immediately and directly from the Crown of the said United Kingdom, or by the Nomination or Appointment, or by any other Appointment subject to the Approbation of the-Lord Lieutenant, Lord Deputy, Lord Justices, or other Chief Governor or Governors of that Part of the said United Kingdom called Ireland, his Seat shall thereupon become vacant, and a Writ shall issue for a new Election: Provided nevertheless, That such Person (if he be not incapacitated by any Thing herein-before contained), shall be capable of being again elected to be a Member of the House of Commons for the Place for which he had been a Member, or for any other Place sending Members to the House of Commons.