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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-miscellaneous-provisions-measure-1978/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-miscellaneous-provisions-measure-1978/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/1978/3",
  "legislation_title": "Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-miscellaneous-provisions-measure-1978",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Special majorities required for certain Measures.",
  "text": "In Article 8 of the Constitution of the General Synod of the Church of England set out in Schedule 2 to the Synodical Goverment Measure 1969, which Article lays down certain requirements for the final approval of the General Synod for, among other things, a Measure or Canon providing for permanent changes in the Services of Baptism or Holy Communion or in the Ordinal, the following paragraph shall be inserted after paragraph (1B):\n“(1C) A motion for final approval of a Measure providing for permanent changes in any such Service or in the Ordinal shall not be deemed to be carried unless it receives the assent of a majority in each House of the General Synod of not less than two-thirds of those present and voting.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1969 No. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 1, 4, 6, 10, 11(1) and 12 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/1978/3/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:23:07.783472+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."
}