Catholic Emancipation

There's nothing actually wrong with this question, but it is potentially quite misleading.

The Acts of Uniformity (1549, 1552, 1559, 1662 and 1663) were all intended to establish orthodoxy within the Church of England. "The penal laws" is an informal term used to describe a series of laws imposed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in an attempt to force Irish Catholics and Protestant dissenters to accept the established Church of Ireland. And the Test Acts were another series of seventeenth–century penal laws (see below) that served as a religious test for public office and imposed various civil restrictions on Roman Catholics and nonconformists.

Wikipedia describes "penal law" (as opposed to "the penal laws") as "a specific series of laws that sought to uphold the establishment of the Church of England against Protestant nonconformists and Catholicism."

As the question corrently asserts, these laws were all either repealed or relaxed in the nineteenth century, during the process that became known as Catholic emancipation.

My quibble with this question is that it would be all too easy, when hearing it read out, to mishear the word "relaxed" and take the question to be about the purpose of all these laws – which is perhaps best summarised by what it says in the second paragraph above: "to establish orthodoxy within the Church of England." This of course is the opposite of the correct answer to the question, and would not (and could not) be construed as being correct.

If you want to ask a question about Catholic emancipation, I would suggest that you should refer to one or more Acts that actually contributed to the process – not those that were reversed by it. The trouble is that these tended to be called things like Catholic Relief Acts – a bit of a giveaway. Even so ... as I've said before, I am no historian, but Wikipedia did lead me to one exception: the Sacramental Test Act (1828).