{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-measure-2026/section-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-measure-2026/section-38.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/2026/1",
  "legislation_title": "Clergy Conduct Measure 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-measure-2026",
  "path": "section/38",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Power to impose penalty or administrative sanction",
  "text": "(1) Where, on a complaint of misconduct (but not serious misconduct), the case assessor finds that the respondent has committed misconduct, the responsible bishop or, where the complaint is against an archbishop, the President of Tribunals may impose a penalty or administrative sanction.\n(2) Where, on a complaint of serious misconduct, the bishop’s disciplinary tribunal or the Vicar-General’s Court finds that the respondent has committed misconduct or serious misconduct, the tribunal or court may impose a penalty or administrative sanction.\n(3) Where, on a complaint of misconduct (but not serious misconduct), the respondent admits to misconduct, the responsible bishop or, where the complaint is against an archbishop, the President of Tribunals may impose a penalty or administrative sanction.\n(4) Where, on a complaint of serious misconduct against a priest or deacon, the respondent admits to misconduct, the bishop’s disciplinary tribunal may impose a penalty or administrative sanction.\n(5) Where, on a complaint of serious misconduct against a bishop or archbishop, the respondent admits to misconduct, the Vicar-General’s Court may impose a penalty or administrative sanction.\n(6) Where, in a case within subsections (3) to (5), the respondent admits to only part of the misconduct alleged in the complaint, no penalty or administrative sanction may be imposed for that part of the misconduct until the complaint, so far as it relates to the other part of the misconduct, has been concluded.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 38 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/38",
    "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."
}