{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-representation-rules-amendment-no-2-resolution-1984/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-representation-rules-amendment-no-2-resolution-1984/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1984/1040",
  "legislation_title": "The Church Representation Rules (Amendment) (No. 2) Resolution 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-representation-rules-amendment-no-2-resolution-1984",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Qualifications of Persons to be chosen or elected by Annual Meetings",
  "text": "After rule 9(1) there shall be inserted—\n“(1A) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) hereof, a baptised person who—\n(a) is of communicant status in another Church which subscribes to the doctrine of the Holy Trinity; and\n(b) is in good standing in that Church; and\n(c) is an habitual worshipper and a communicant at the parish church or at some other building licensed for public worship in the parish; and\n(d) is of seventeen years and upwards,\nmay, with the prior permission of the bishop, be nominated for election as a parochial representative of the laity to the parochial church council.\nProvided that at least two-thirds of the parochial representatives of the laity to the parochial church council shall have the qualifications set out in paragraph (1) hereof. ”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1984/1040/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:37:57.121894+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."
}