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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clerical-disabilities-act-1870/section-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/33-34/91",
  "legislation_title": "Clerical Disabilities Act 1870",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clerical-disabilities-act-1870",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "In this Act—\nThe term “the Church of England” means the Church of England as by law established:\nThe term “minister” means a priest or a deacon:\nThe terms “preferment,” “bishop,” and “diocese” respectively have the same meaning as in the Church Discipline Act 1840.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1840 c. 86."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/33-34/91/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:54:26.440903+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."
}