{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-rules-2026/rule-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-rules-2026/rule-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/882",
  "legislation_title": "The Clergy Conduct Rules 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-rules-2026",
  "path": "rule/13",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Referral of a complaint",
  "text": "(1) The responsible bishop or the President of Tribunals, having received a complaint, must make the referral under section 20 (1) (a) of the CCM, and any referral required under section 20 (2) or (3) of the CCM, before the end of five days beginning with the day after the complaint was received.\n(2) Where there is more than one lead assessor on the panel of assessors, the question of which of them to make the referral to under section 20 (1) (a) of the CCM is to be determined by the responsible bishop or, where the complaint is against an archbishop, the President of Tribunals, having taken into account the availability of each of the lead assessors.\n(3) The information which the responsible bishop or President of Tribunals must give for the purposes of section 20 (9) of the CCM when referring a complaint is a factual summary of any previous complaint made against the respondent under the CDM, the EJM or the CCM and the outcome of that complaint.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/882/rule/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:56:54.526438+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."
}