{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-exemption-listed-buildings-and-conservation-areas-order-1994/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-exemption-listed-buildings-and-conservation-areas-order-1994/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1771",
  "legislation_title": "The Ecclesiastical Exemption (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-exemption-listed-buildings-and-conservation-areas-order-1994",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Buildings retaining ecclesiastical exemption",
  "text": "Ecclesiastical exemption is retained for—\n(a) buildings within the faculty jurisdiction of the Church of England;\n(b) buildings subject to the Measure;\n(c) buildings of the Church in Wales vested in the Representative Body of the Church in Wales or any other representative body under section 13(2) of the Welsh Church Act 1914;\n(d) buildings held in trust by the diocesan trustees of a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church;\n(e) buildings owned by or held in trust for or for the purposes of the Methodist Church or any connexional or local organisation of the Methodist Church;\n(f) buildings held in trust for a Church in membership with the Baptist Union of Great Britain or the Baptist Union of Wales by one of the trust corporations set out in Schedule 1 (whether alone or jointly with another person or persons); and\n(g) buildings situated within one of the Provinces of the United Reformed Church set out in Schedule 2 held on the trusts set out in Part I of Schedule 2 to the United Reformed Church Act 1972or Part I of Schedule 2 to the United Reformed Church Act 1981.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1914 c. 91."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.xviii."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1981 c.xxiv."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1771/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:30:00.038981+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."
}