{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-representation-rules-amendment-resolution-1981/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-representation-rules-amendment-resolution-1981/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/959",
  "legislation_title": "The Church Representation Rules (Amendment) Resolution 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-representation-rules-amendment-resolution-1981",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Chairman of annual meeting",
  "text": "(1) For the first sentence of rule 7 there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—\n“(1) The minister, if present, or, if he is not present, the vice-chairman of the parochial church council, or, subject to paragraph (2) of this rule, if he also is not present, a chairman chosen by the annual meeting shall preside thereat.\n(2) Where a parish is in the area of a benefice for which a team ministry is established, and a vicar in that ministry is entitled to preside at an annual meeting of that parish by virtue of a provision in a pastoral scheme or the bishop's licence assigning to the vicar the duties, or a share in the duties, of the chairmanship of the annual meeting of that parish, then, if both he and the vice-chairman of the parochial church council are not present at that meeting, but the rector in that ministry is present, the rector shall preside thereat.”\n(2) The second sentence of rule 7 shall become paragraph (3) of that rule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/959/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:36:40.652839+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."
}