{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chancel-repair-church-commissioners-liability-measure-2025/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chancel-repair-church-commissioners-liability-measure-2025/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/2025/1",
  "legislation_title": "Chancel Repair (Church Commissioners’ Liability) Measure 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chancel-repair-church-commissioners-liability-measure-2025",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Future liabilities",
  "text": "(1) Where, after the commencement of this section, the Church Commissioners acquire land and, immediately before the acquisition, a liability to repair the chancel of a church had effect as an interest in or over that land, the liability—\n(a) ceases on the acquisition to have effect as such, and\n(b) takes effect instead as a duty imposed on the Commissioners by this section.\n(2) A liability imposed on the Church Commissioners under this section is of the same extent as it was immediately before the acquisition.\n(3) Any Land Registry entry in respect of a liability to repair the chancel of a church which, but for this section, would on the acquisition have become a liability of the Church Commissioners having effect as an interest in or over land, ceases to have effect.\n(4) The references to the Church Commissioners include a reference to a subsidiary of the Commissioners.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 6(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 3 in force at 1.10.2025 by S.I. 2025/1041, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/2025/1/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:22:06.176859+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."
}