{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-discipline-rules-2005/rule-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-discipline-rules-2005/rule-39.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2022",
  "legislation_title": "The Clergy Discipline Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-discipline-rules-2005",
  "path": "rule/39",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "The tribunal and the overriding objective",
  "text": "The tribunal shall in accordance with the overriding objective in rule 1—\n(a) conduct the hearing in the manner it considers most appropriate to the issues before it and to the just handling of the allegation of misconduct generally,\n(b) set a suitable timetable for the hearing.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 39(a) substituted (13.7.2021) by The Clergy Discipline (Amendment) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/557), rule 1(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 39 in force at 1.1.2006, see rule 107(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2022/rule/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:44:24.173514+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."
}