{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-jurisdiction-discipline-rules-1964/article-49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-jurisdiction-discipline-rules-1964/article-49.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1964/1755",
  "legislation_title": "The Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction (Discipline) Rules 1964",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-jurisdiction-discipline-rules-1964",
  "path": "article/49",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Deposition of priest or deacon",
  "text": "(1) The notice which a bishop is required by the proviso to section 50 of the Measure to serve on a priest or deacon of his intention to depose him from Holy Orders shall be in the form set out in the Appendix.\n(2) After the said notice has been served, the bishop shall fix a time, not less than one month after the service of the notice, and a place for the sentence of deposition to be pronounced:\nProvided that, if there is an appeal under the said proviso, and the deposition is accordingly only to be proceeded with in the event of the appeal being dismissed, the bishop shall (in that event) fix a time for the sentence of deposition to be pronounced not less than fourteen days after the dismissal of the appeal.\n(3) The registrar shall give the priest or deacon concerned not less than fourteen days notice of the time and place fixed for the pronouncement of the sentence of deposition.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1964/1755/article/49",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T00:02:42.936380+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."
}