{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-jurisdiction-measure-1963/section-83",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-jurisdiction-measure-1963/section-83.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/1963/1",
  "legislation_title": "Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-jurisdiction-measure-1963",
  "path": "section/83",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "83",
  "heading": "Savings.",
  "text": "(1) Any judge or registrar of an ecclesiastical court appointed to office before the commencement of this Measure shall continue in his office as if he had been appointed under this Measure and nothing contained in this Measure shall affect the terms and conditions on and subject to which his appointment was made.\n(2) Nothing in this Measure affects—\n(a) any prerogative of Her Majesty the Queen; or\n(b) the existing procedure relating to the confirmation of the election of bishops; or\n(c) any power of the High Court to control the proper exercise by ecclesiastical courts of their functions; or\n(d) the mode of appointment, office, and duties of vicars general of provinces or dioceses; or\n(e) the visitatorial powers of archdeacons; or\n(f) the mode of appointment, office and duties of the official principal of an archdeacon; or\n(g) the jurisdiction of the Master of the Faculties.\n(3) Subject to the provisions of section twenty-nine of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1840, nothing in this Measure shall authorise proceedings against a holder of an office in a Royal Peculiar.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1840 c. 113."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 83(2) applied (with modifications) (1.1.2006) by Clergy Discipline Measure 2003 (No. 3), ss. 35(1), 48(2) (with s. 47); S.I. 2005/6, Instrument made by Archbishops"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 83(3) applied (with modifications) (1.1.2006) by Clergy Discipline Measure 2003 (No. 3), ss. 35(1), 48(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/83",
    "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."
}