# Clergy (Ordination and Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1964, Section 2: Ordination to priesthood in 24th year of age.


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 ”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/1964/6/section/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-ordination-and-miscellaneous-provisions-measure-1964/section-2
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