{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cemeteries-clauses-act-1847/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cemeteries-clauses-act-1847/section-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/10-11/65",
  "legislation_title": "Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cemeteries-clauses-act-1847",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Chaplain to be appointed with consent of the bishop.",
  "text": "The company may from time to time, with the approval of the bishop of the diocese in which the cemetery is situated, appoint a clerk in holy orders of the Established Church to officiate as chaplain in the consecrated part of the cemetery; and such chaplain shall be licensed by and be subject to the jurisdiction of the said bishop, and the said bishop shall have power to revoke any such licence, and to remove such chaplain, for any cause which appears to him reasonable.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 27 substituted (Provinces of Canterbury and York except Channel Islands and Isle of Man) (11.7.1992) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1992 (No. 1), s. 17(1), Sch. 3 Para.1;Instruments dated 27.5.1992 and 11.7.1992 made by Archbishops of Canterbury and York"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 27 saved as to City of London Cemetery by London Government Act 1963 (c. 33), s. 44(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/65/section/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:30:39.399657+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."
}