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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-property-measure-2018/section-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-property-measure-2018/section-37.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/2018/8",
  "legislation_title": "Church Property Measure 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-property-measure-2018",
  "path": "section/37",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Sequestrations",
  "text": "(1) The sequestrators of a vacant benefice must, at the close of the sequestration, pay to the DBF the balance in their hands, as certified by the bishop or a person authorised by him or her; and the DBF must allocate the amount received to the income account of the diocesan stipends fund.\n(2) This section does not apply where a period of suspension of presentation follows, whether immediately or after an interval, a period during which the benefice has been vacant.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 37 in force at 1.3.2019 by S.I. 2019/97, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/2018/8/section/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:22:15.330132+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."
}