{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-jurisdiction-measure-1963/section-69",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-jurisdiction-measure-1963/section-69.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/1963/1",
  "legislation_title": "Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-jurisdiction-measure-1963",
  "path": "section/69",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "69",
  "heading": "Criminal proceedings in ecclesiastical courts to be taken only in accordance with this Measure.",
  "text": "No proceedings by way of a criminal suit, other than those authorised by Part VI of this Measure, shall be instituted against a person ... in the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved, and no proceedings so authorised shall be instituted except in accordance with that Part of this Measure:\n...",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 69 substituted (1.1.2006) by Clergy Discipline Measure 2003 (No. 3), s. 48(2), Sch. 1 para. 12 (with s. 47); S.I. 2005/6, Instrument made by Archbishops"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 69 repealed (1.9.2018) by Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018 (No. 3), s. 99(2), Sch. 1 para. 22(a), Sch. 5 (with Sch. 4 Pt. 1); S.I. 2018/720, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 69 substituted (1.9.2018) by Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018 (No. 3), s. 99(2), Sch. 1 para. 22(b) (with Sch. 4 Pt. 1); S.I. 2018/720, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 69 repealed (1.1.2006) by Clergy Discipline Measure 2003 (No. 3), s. 48(2), Sch. 2 (with s. 47); S.I. 2005/6, Instrument made by Archbishops"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/1963/1/section/69",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:23:39.589550+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."
}