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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diocesan-education-committees-measure-1955-repealed-181991/section-1",
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  "legislation": "ukcm/Eliz2/4-5/1",
  "legislation_title": "Diocesan Education Committees Measure 1955 (repealed 1.8.1991)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diocesan-education-committees-measure-1955-repealed-181991",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Establishment and constitution of Diocesan Education Committees.",
  "text": "(1) For every diocese within the provinces of Canterbury and York except the diocese of Sodor and Man there shall be a diocesan education committee (whether corporate or unincorporate) responsible to the diocesan conference and having such rights, powers, duties and obligations as are vested in the committee by this Measure.\n(2) Subject to the provisions of this Measure, a diocesan education committee shall be constituted either in accordance with the Schedule to this Measure or in accordance with an order made by the Minister upon and in accordance with a request in that behalf made on resolution of the diocesan conference and with the consent of the bishop.\nA diocesan education committee constituted in accordance with the Schedule to this Measure shall be known as the diocesan education committee with the addition of the name of the diocese and a diocesan education committee constituted in accordance with an order made by the Minister shall be known by the name designated in the order.\n(3) The Minister upon and in accordance with a request in that behalf made on resolution of the diocesan conference and with the consent of the bishop may by order amend, vary or revoke any order made under the provisions of this section.\n(4) Where a diocesan education committee is constituted in accordance with the Schedule to this Measure, the Minister upon a request in that behalf made on resolution of the diocesan conference and with the consent of the bishop may by order direct that the provisions of the said Schedule shall cease to apply to that committee.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/Eliz2/4-5/1/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:23:50.065470+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."
}