{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clerical-subscription-act-1865/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clerical-subscription-act-1865/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/28-29/122",
  "legislation_title": "Clerical Subscription Act 1865",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clerical-subscription-act-1865",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Subscription and oaths on ordination.",
  "text": "Every person about to be ordained priest or deacon shall, before ordination, in the presence of the archbishop or bishop by whom he is about to be ordained, at such time as he may appoint, . . . take and subscribe the oath of allegiance and supremacy . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Church of England (Worship and Doctrine) Measure 1974 (No. 3), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1875 (c. 66)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/28-29/122/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:02:25.329745+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."
}