{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bishops-retirement-measure-1986/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bishops-retirement-measure-1986/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/1986/1",
  "legislation_title": "Bishops (Retirement) Measure 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bishops-retirement-measure-1986",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Provisions as to pensions.",
  "text": "Where a bishopric is declared vacant under section 3 ..., the bishop ... shall be treated for the purposes of sections 1 of the Clergy Pensions Measure 1961 as having retired on the ground of infirmity on the date from which the bishopric ... is declared vacant.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 7 repealed (31.1.2011) by Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) Measure 2009 (No. 1), ss. 3(7), 13(2), Sch. 3 (with s. 9); 2010 No. 8, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1961 No. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 7 restricted (31.1.2011) by Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) Measure 2009 (No. 1), ss. 3(8), 13(2) (with s. 9); 2010 No. 8, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/1986/1/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:23:02.796927+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."
}