{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-representation-rules-amendment-resolution-1994/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-representation-rules-amendment-resolution-1994/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3118",
  "legislation_title": "The Church Representation Rules (Amendment) Resolution 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-representation-rules-amendment-resolution-1994",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In rule 1, paragraph (2) shall be omitted and there shall be inserted—\n“(2) A lay person shall be entitled to have his name entered on the roll of a parish if he is baptised, of sixteen years or upwards, has signed an application form for enrolment set out in Appendix I of these rules and declares himself either—\n(a) to be a member of the Church of England or of a Church in communion therewith resident in the parish; or\n(b) to be such a member and, not being resident in the parish, to have habitually attended public worship in the parish during a period of six months prior to enrolment; or\n(c) to be a member in good standing of a Church which subscribes to the doctrine of the Holy Trinity (not being a Church in communion with the Church of England) and also prepared to declare himself to be a member of the Church of England having habitually attended public worship in the parish during a period of six months prior to enrolment.\nProvided that where a lay person will have his sixteenth birthday after the intended revision of the electoral roll or the preparation of a new roll but on or before the date of the annual parochial church meeting, he may complete a form of application for enrolment and his name shall be enrolled but with effect from the date of his birthday.\n(3) Where a person resides in an extra-parochial place he shall be deemed for the purposes of these rules to reside in the parish which it abuts, and if there is any doubt in the matter a determination shall be made by the bishop’s council and standing committee.”\nand paragraphs (3) to (9) shall be renumbered (4) to (11).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3118/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:21:24.625016+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."
}