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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-buildings-and-glebes-scotland-act-1868/section-5",
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  "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/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Intimation of appeals.",
  "text": "All appeals under this Act shall within ten days of their presentation be intimated by circular, transmitted by the appellant or his agent through the post office, addressed to each heritor or his known factor or agent, to the clerk of the heritors, if there be such clerk, to the minister of the parish (if the benefice is full at the time), and to the clerk of the presbytery of the bounds: Provided always, that where the number of heritors of the parish exceeds forty, it shall not be necessary to address a circular to each heritor or his factor or agent, but it shall be sufficient if a copy of the petition of appeal is affixed to the most patent door of the church for two successive Sundays next following the presentation of the petition, and if notice of the presentation of the petition is inserted in a newspaper circulating in the county during each of two successive weeks.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/96/section/5",
    "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."
}