{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-miscellaneous-provisions-measure-2018/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-miscellaneous-provisions-measure-2018/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/2018/7",
  "legislation_title": "Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-miscellaneous-provisions-measure-2018",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Marriage: licensing chapel during suspension period in benefice",
  "text": "In section 20 of the Marriage Act 1949 (licensing public chapel for publication of banns and solemnization of marriages), after subsection (7) insert—\n“(7A) In the case of a benefice to which a suspension period within the meaning of the Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011 applies and for which a priest in charge has been appointed, this section has effect as if each reference to the incumbent were a reference to the priest in charge.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 in force at 1.3.2019 by S.I. 2019/67, art. 2(1)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/2018/7/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:22:15.948639+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."
}