{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-measure-2026/section-69",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-measure-2026/section-69.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/2026/1",
  "legislation_title": "Clergy Conduct Measure 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-measure-2026",
  "path": "section/69",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "69",
  "heading": "Meaning of “conclusive” conviction etc.",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Measure, a conviction for an offence becomes conclusive—\n(a) where there is an appeal against the conviction, on the date on which the appeal is dismissed, abandoned or finally concluded;\n(b) where there is no appeal against the conviction—\n(i) on the expiry of the period during which an appeal may be made, or\n(ii) in the case of a conviction for which that period is indefinite, at the end of two months beginning with the date of the conviction.\n(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(a), if the decision being appealed is varied on appeal, the proceedings or conviction are conclusive only as varied; and in so far as the decision is reversed, it ceases to have effect.\n(3) Where a clerk in Holy Orders is convicted of an offence—\n(a) the court before which the clerk is convicted must cause a certificate of the conviction, in such form as may be specified in the rules, to be sent to the bishop of the diocese in which the court sits, and\n(b) the certificate is to be kept in the registry of that diocese or of any other diocese to which the bishop directs it to be sent.\n(4) After the conviction of a clerk in Holy Orders for an offence becomes conclusive, a certificate of the conviction is conclusive proof for the purposes of this Measure that the clerk committed the conduct constituting the offence.\n(5) Where a clerk in Holy Orders is given a simple or conditional caution, the caution form is conclusive proof for the purposes of this Measure that the clerk committed the conduct for which the caution was given.\n(6) Where a clerk in Holy Orders is given an administrative disposal, the record kept by the police of the clerk being given that disposal is conclusive proof for the purposes of this Measure that the clerk committed the conduct for which the disposal was given.\n(7) In subsection (6), the reference to being given an administrative disposal is a reference to undergoing an administrative process operated by the police for the disposal of conduct—\n(a) which constitutes an offence, and\n(b) for which the person undergoing the process accepts responsibility, but\n(c) for which no charge is being brought.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 69 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/69",
    "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."
}