{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-scotland-courts-act-1863/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-scotland-courts-act-1863/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/26-27/47",
  "legislation_title": "Church of Scotland Courts Act 1863",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-scotland-courts-act-1863",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Provision in case of a minister being suspended.",
  "text": "When, by their final sentence upon a libel, a Presbytery or other church court shall suspend a minister from the discharge of the duties of his office for a term specified in the said sentence, it is hereby further declared and enacted, that it is and shall be held to be the right of the Presbytery to appoint a qualified assistant to discharge the said duties....",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 3 repealed (S.) (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/26-27/47/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:06:56.722049+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."
}