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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dioceses-pastoral-and-mission-measure-2007/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation_title": "Dioceses, Pastoral and Mission Measure 2007",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A scheme by which a new bishopric is to be founded and a new diocese is created shall specify the see of the bishop of the diocese and provide for—\n(a) constituting the bishop of the diocese a corporation sole and investing him with all such rights, privileges and jurisdictions as are possessed by any other diocesan bishop in England;\n(b) subjecting the bishop to the metropolitan jurisdiction of one of the archbishops; and\n(c) the election of a bishop of the diocese.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2 in force at 1.9.2008 by 2008 No. 3, Instrument made by Archbishops"
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  "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."
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