{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-representation-rules-amendment-resolution-1980/article-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-representation-rules-amendment-resolution-1980/article-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1980/178",
  "legislation_title": "The Church Representation Rules (Amendment) Resolution 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-representation-rules-amendment-resolution-1980",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Construction of references to parish, laity etc",
  "text": "(1) In rule 44(1), in the definition of “parish”, the words “and has a separate curate licensed thereto” shall be omitted.\n(2) After rule 44(2) there shall be inserted:—\n“(3) Where a person has executed a deed of relinquishment under the Clerical Disabilities Act 1870 and the deed has been enrolled in the High Court and recorded in the registry of a diocese under that Act then, unless and until the vacation of the enrolment of the deed is recorded in such a registry under the Clerical Disabilities Act 1870 (Amendment) Measure 1934, that person shall be deemed not to be a clerk in Holy Orders for the purpose of paragraph (2) above or of any other provision of these rules which refers to such a clerk.”\n(3) The present paragraphs (3), (4), (5) and (6) of rule 44 shall be re-numbered (4), (5), (6) and (7) respectively.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1870 c.91."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1934 No. 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/178/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:05:28.004435+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."
}