{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-jurisdiction-act-1847-repealed-161992/section-1.",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/10-11/98",
  "legislation_title": "Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act 1847 (repealed 1.6.1992)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-jurisdiction-act-1847-repealed-161992",
  "path": "section/1.",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Bishop to exercise jurisdiction throughout his diocese, save in causes testamentary.",
  "text": "The bishop of every diocese in England shall by himself or his officers exercise throughout the whole of his diocese, as it now is or hereafter may be limited or constituted, . . . the same jurisdiction and authority which before the passing of this Act he or any bishop lawfully could or might exercise by himself or his officers within any part of such diocese.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1875 (c. 66)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/98/section/1.",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:30:14.614813+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."
}