{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-measure-2026/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-measure-2026/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/2026/1",
  "legislation_title": "Clergy Conduct Measure 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-measure-2026",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Jurisdiction on clergy conduct",
  "text": "(1) This Measure confers the jurisdiction on regulating the conduct of a priest, deacon, bishop or archbishop; but that is subject to subsection (2).\n(2) The Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963 (referred to in this Measure as “the EJM”) continues to confer the jurisdiction on regulating the conduct of a priest, deacon, bishop or archbishop in cases which involve a question of doctrine, ritual or ceremonial.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 73(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/2026/1/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:22:03.551412+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."
}