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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-jurisdiction-and-care-of-churches-measure-2018/section-56",
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  "legislation": "ukcm/2018/3",
  "legislation_title": "Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-jurisdiction-and-care-of-churches-measure-2018",
  "path": "section/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Churches, churchyards and articles",
  "text": "For the avoidance of doubt and without prejudice to the jurisdiction of consistory courts under this Measure or under any other enactment or any rule of law, it is hereby declared that the jurisdiction of the consistory court of a diocese applies to every parish church in the diocese and every churchyard and article appertaining to it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 56 in force at 1.9.2018 by S.I. 2018/720, art. 2"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/2018/3/section/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:22:19.184067+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."
}