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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-buildings-and-glebes-scotland-act-1868/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-buildings-and-glebes-scotland-act-1868/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/31-32/96",
  "legislation_title": "Ecclesiastical Buildings and Glebes (Scotland) Act 1868",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-buildings-and-glebes-scotland-act-1868",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Appeal, how to be taken.",
  "text": "An appeal under this Act shall be taken by the appellant or his agent presenting a summary petition to the sheriff . . . , praying him to stay the proceedings before the presbytery, and to dispose of the same himself: . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (c.27, SIF 45:3), Sch. 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 4 applied by Church of Scotland (Property and Endowments) Act 1925 (c. 33), s. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/96/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:57:29.877584+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."
}