{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-courts-jurisdiction-act-1860/section-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/23-24/32",
  "legislation_title": "Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-courts-jurisdiction-act-1860",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Offenders may be, immediately after offence committed, apprehended, etc.",
  "text": "Every such offender in the premises after the said mis-demeanor so committed immediately and forthwith may be apprehended and taken by any constable or church warden of the parish or place where the said offence shall be committed, and taken before a magistrates' court, to be dealt with according to law. taken before a district judge (magistrates' courts) to be dealt with according to law.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed (E.W.) by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60, SIF 95), s. 119(2), Sch. 7 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 3 substituted (N.I.) (31.10.2016) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 9), s. 106(2), Sch. 1 para. 26 (with Sch. 8 para. 1); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(k) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 3 substituted (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), s. 110(1), Sch. 8 para. 38; S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/23-24/32/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:12:16.348771+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."
}