{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dioceses-pastoral-and-mission-measure-2007/section-21",
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  "legislation": "ukcm/2007/1",
  "legislation_title": "Dioceses, Pastoral and Mission Measure 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dioceses-pastoral-and-mission-measure-2007",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Power of Commissioners to pay stipend, etc. of certain bishops",
  "text": "Where a new bishopric is founded and a new diocese created by a reorganisation scheme, the Commissioners shall have power—\n(a) to pay out of their general fund to the bishop of that diocese, and to any suffragan bishop thereof, such a stipend and such annual sum in respect of the expenses incurred by him in connection with the performance of the duties attaching to his office as they think fit; and\n(b) to provide the bishop of that diocese with a suitable residence;\nbut before exercising the power conferred on them by paragraph (b) above the Commissioners shall consult the bishop's council and standing committee of the diocesan synod of that diocese.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 21 in force at 1.9.2008 by 2008 No. 1, Instrument made by Archbishops"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/2007/1/section/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:22:35.989761+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."
}