{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-miscellaneous-provisions-measure-2020/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-miscellaneous-provisions-measure-2020/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/2020/1",
  "legislation_title": "Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-miscellaneous-provisions-measure-2020",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Funerals: conduct by lay person",
  "text": "(1) In section 4 of the Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2018 (funerals: conduct), after subsection (1) insert—\n“(1A) A duly authorised deaconess, reader or lay worker (a “lay office-holder”) may, with the consent of the incumbent or priest-in-charge of the benefice or parish to which the lay office-holder is licensed, perform a funeral service in a crematorium, cemetery or other place which is not a church or churchyard, and in which the lay office-holder would not otherwise be entitled to perform the service, if—\n(a) the persons concerned have asked the lay office-holder to perform the service, and\n(b) the lay office-holder has, so far as practicable, informed the relevant minister and sought his or her goodwill.\n(1B) The reference in subsection (1A) to the incumbent or priest-in-charge of the benefice or parish is, where there is no such person, to be read as a reference to the rural dean of the deanery in which the benefice or parish is situated.”\n(2) In subsection (3) of that section, after “subsection (1)” insert “ or (1A) ”.\n(3) In subsection (4) of that section, for “subsection (1)” substitute “ subsections (1) and (1A) ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 in force at 1.9.2020 by S.I. 2020/835, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/2020/1/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:22:12.908623+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."
}