{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-church-rate-abolition-act-1868/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-church-rate-abolition-act-1868/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/31-32/109",
  "legislation_title": "Compulsory Church Rate Abolition Act 1868",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-church-rate-abolition-act-1868",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Act not to affect vestries, &c.",
  "text": "This Act shall not affect vestries, or the making, assessing, receiving, or otherwise dealing with any church rate, save in so far as relates to the recovery thereof; but subject to the provisions herein-before contained, whensoever any ecclesiastical district having within its limits a consecrated church in use for the purpose of divine worship shall have been legally constituted out of any parish or parishes, and whether such district shall or shall not be a separate and distinct parish, the inhabitants of such district shall not be entitled to vote for or in reference to a church rate or the expenditure thereof at any vestry meeting of the parish or parishes out of which the said district is formed, nor shall they be assessed to any rate made in relation to the parish church of the said parish or parishes, but such inhabitants may assemble in vestry, and, subject to the provisions of this Act, may make and assess a rate in relation to the church of their own district in like manner as if such church were the church of an ancient parish: Provided, that nothing in this Act contained shall affect any right of burial to which the inhabitants of the district may be entitled in the churchyard of the mother church.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/109/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:57:20.151144+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."
}