{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-discipline-measure-2003/section-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-discipline-measure-2003/section-42.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/2003/3",
  "legislation_title": "Clergy Discipline Measure 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-discipline-measure-2003",
  "path": "section/42",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Application of Measure in special cases",
  "text": "(1) In the application of this Measure to the following—\nCathedral clergy\nChaplains of prisons, hospitals, universities, schools and institutions in an extra-parochial place\nChaplains of the armed forces of the Crown\nMinisters who have a licence from the archbishop of a province to preach throughout the province\nMinisters who have a licence from the University of Oxford or Cambridge to preach throughout England\nit shall be read with the following adaptations.\n(2) In the case of a clerk in Holy Orders serving in a cathedral church, disciplinary proceedings may be instituted only by—\n(a) a person nominated by the Chapter of the cathedral; or\n(b) any other person, if the diocesan bishop concerned determines that that person has a proper interest in making the complaint.\n(3) In the case of a chaplain of a prison, hospital, university, school or other institution, disciplinary proceedings may be instituted only by a person duly authorised by the diocesan bishop concerned to institute such proceedings.\n(4) In the case of a chaplain of one of the armed forces of the Crown—\n(a) disciplinary proceedings may be instituted only if the archbishop of Canterbury determines that the person concerned has a proper interest in making the complaint;\n(b) the complaint shall be laid before the archbishop of Canterbury and references to the diocesan bishop concerned shall be construed as references to that archbishop.\n(5) In the case of a minister who has a licence from the archbishop of a province—\n(a) disciplinary proceedings may be instituted only by a person duly authorised by the archbishop to institute such proceedings;\n(b) the complaint shall be laid before that archbishop and references to the diocesan bishop concerned shall be construed accordingly.\n(6) In the case of a minister who has a licence from the University of Oxford or Cambridge—\n(a) disciplinary proceedings may be instituted only by a person duly authorised by the archbishop of Canterbury to institute such proceedings;\n(b) the complaint shall be laid before that archbishop and references to the diocesan bishop concerned shall be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 42(2)(a) substituted (coming into force in accordance with s. 53(3) of the amending Measure) by Cathedrals Measure 2021 (No. 2), Sch. 4 para. 26 (with ss. 42(4), 48, 52(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 42 in force at 1.1.2006 by S.I. 2005/6, Instrument made by Archbishops"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/2003/3/section/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:22:40.345574+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."
}