{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-ordination-and-miscellaneous-provisions-measure-1964/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-ordination-and-miscellaneous-provisions-measure-1964/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/1964/6",
  "legislation_title": "Clergy (Ordination and Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1964",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-ordination-and-miscellaneous-provisions-measure-1964",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Ordination to priesthood in 24th year of age.",
  "text": "It shall be lawful for the Archbishop of Canterbury to grant a Faculty to a person over the age of twenty-three years to be admitted a Priest in any Diocese in either Province and to preach and administer the Sacraments although such person has not attained the full age of twenty-four years, and accordingly in section one of the Clergy Ordination Act 1804, after the words “four and twenty years compleat” there shall be inserted the words “ unless being over the age of twenty-three years he hath a Faculty from the Archbishop of Canterbury ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1804 c. 43."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/1964/6/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:23:34.400844+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."
}