{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-commissioners-act-1840/section-27",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/3-4/113",
  "legislation_title": "Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1840",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-commissioners-act-1840",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Qualification of deans, archdeacons, and canons.",
  "text": "No person shall hereafter be capable of receiving the appointment of dean ... , archdeacon, or canon, until he shall have been six years complete in holy orders and, in the case of a dean ... or archdeacon, be in priest’s orders at the time of the appointment, except in the case of a canonry annexed to any professorship, headship, or other office in any university.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 27 omitted (coming into force in accordance with s. 53(3) of the amending Measure) by virtue of Cathedrals Measure 2021 (No. 2), Sch. 4 para. 1 (with ss. 42(4), 48, 52(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 27 inserted (1.9.1995) by 1995 No. 2, s. 5(a); Instrument dated 26.7.1995 made by Archbishops of Canterbury and York"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 27 substituted (1.9.1995) by 1995 No. 2, s. 5(b); Instrument dated 26.7.1995 made by Archbishops of Canterbury and York"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/3-4/113/section/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:40:23.816809+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."
}