{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compensation-of-clergy-rules-1970/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1970/1009",
  "legislation_title": "The Compensation of Clergy Rules 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compensation-of-clergy-rules-1970",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In these Rules unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—\n“the Committee” means, in relation to a claim and other proceedings, the Pastoral Committee for the diocese in which the incumbent, vicar in a team ministry or archdeacon concerned in the proceedings, was serving before the date of the coming into operation of the relevant provision of the pastoral scheme or order affecting his benefice or office or, in the case of a claim made before that date, the diocese in which the claimant is serving;\n“the registrar of the diocese” and “chancellor of the diocese” mean the registrar and chancellor of the aforesaid diocese;\n“the Measure” means the Pastoral Measure 1968;\n“the secretary” means the secretary of the Committee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1970/1009/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:57:40.292928+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."
}