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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/benefices-act-1898/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/benefices-act-1898/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/61-62/48",
  "legislation_title": "Benefices Act 1898",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/benefices-act-1898",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Provision as to grounds of refusal.",
  "text": "The bishop may, on the hearing of any case under section three of this Act, rely on—\n(i) any ground included in his signification of refusal; and\n(ii) by the leave of the judge (on such terms as to notice, costs, adjournment, or otherwise, as the judge thinks fit), any other ground sufficient in law (not being of doctrine or ritual).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/61-62/48/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:27:20.254885+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}