{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-1992/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-1992/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2882",
  "legislation_title": "Faculty Jurisdiction Rules 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-1992",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Seeking Advisory Committee Advice and Lodging Petition",
  "text": "(1) Before lodging a petition for a faculty in the consistory court intending applicants should seek the advice of the advisory committee in respect of the proposed works or purposes for which a faculty in required (except where the action proposed relates exclusively to exhumation or the reservation of a grave space) and should submit to the advisory committee all necessary designs, plans or other documents giving particulars of the proposed works or purposes together with a summary list of the works proposed.\n(2) If the advisory committee decide to recommend the works or purposes or to raise no objection to them their decision together with any provisos attached thereto shall be set out in a certificate in Form No. 1 in Appendix B and shall be sent to the intending applicants together with the designs, plans and other documents submitted to the advisory committee under rule 3.\n(3) If the advisory committee decide not to recommend the works or purposes they shall inform the intending applicants by way of a certificate in Form No. 1 in Appendix B and shall advise them that they are entitled to petition for a faculty from the chancellor, if they so wish, notwithstanding the committee’s decision.\n(4) As soon as they have received the advice of the advisory committee under paragraph (2) or (3) above the applicants may lodge at the diocesan registry a petition for a faculty in Form No 2 in Appendix B in respect of the works or purposes and\n(a) the works or purposes shall be fully and accurately stated in the petition and shall be the same as those in respect of which the advisory committee has supplied a certificate in Form No. 1 in Appendix B under paragraph (2) or (3), and\n(b) any necessary designs, plans or other documents giving particulars of the works or purposes for which the faculty is required, together with the said certificate of the advisory committee relating to those documents, shall be lodged with the petition.\n(5) Notwithstanding that any of the requirements of paragraphs(1) to (4) of this Rule have not been complied with a petition may at any time be lodged at the diocesan registry and every petition shall (subject to rule 33) be in Form No 2 in Appendix B.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2882/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:11:42.975346+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."
}