{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-church-rate-abolition-act-1868/section-8",
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  "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/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Regulations as to persons refusing to pay church rates.",
  "text": "No person who makes default in paying the amount of a church rate for which he is rated shall be entitled to inquire into, or object to, or vote in respect of the expenditure of the monies arising from such church rate; and if the occupier of any premises shall make default for one month after demand in payment of any church rate for which he is rated, the owner shall be entitled to pay the same, and shall thereupon be entitled, until the next succeeding church rate is made, to stand for all purposes relating to church rates (including the attending at vestries and voting thereat) in the place in which such occupier would have stood.",
  "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/8",
    "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."
}