{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-2015/rule-3.1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-2015/rule-3.1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1568",
  "legislation_title": "The Faculty Jurisdiction Rules 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-2015",
  "path": "rule/3.1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "3.1",
  "heading": "Scope and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) Rule 3.2 and Schedule 1 provide for the matters prescribed in List A to be undertaken without a faculty.\n(2) Rule 3.3. and Schedule 1 provide for the matters prescribed in List B to be undertaken without a faculty.\n(3) Rule 3.4 provides for additional matters prescribed by the chancellor to be undertaken without a faculty.\n(4) Rules 3.2 to 3.4 are subject to rules 3.5 to 3.7 (which exclude certain matters from being undertaken without a faculty and make other supplementary provision).\n(5) In this Part “authorised person” means—\n(a) a person acting on behalf of the minister and churchwardens of the parish concerned (or, if there is no minister, on behalf of the churchwardens);\n(b) in relation to a building which is included in the list maintained by the Church Buildings Council under section 38(1) of the Measure, the relevant person or body or a person acting on their behalf; or\n(c) a person designated by the chancellor in respect of a parish or other place for the purposes of this PRule\n(6) an oil-fired heating system or to an electrical installation or electrical equipment, “accredited certification scheme” means a scheme of product conformity certification ... which applies to the work that is to be carried out and which is accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS).\n(7) If another body is appointed as the UK national accreditation body for the purposes of Article 4(1) of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9th July 2008 setting out the requirements for accreditation and market surveillance relating to the marketing of products and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 339/93, the reference in paragraph (6) to UKAS is to be read as a reference to that body.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 3.1(5)(b) substituted (1.9.2018) by Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018 (No. 3), s. 99(2), Sch. 3 para. 39 (with Sch. 4 Pt. 1); S.I. 2018/720, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 3.1(6) inserted (1.4.2020) by The Faculty Jurisdiction (Amendment) Rules 2019 (S.I. 2019/1184), rules 1(2), 5(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 3.1(6) omitted (1.4.2020) by virtue of The Faculty Jurisdiction (Amendment) Rules 2019 (S.I. 2019/1184), rules 1(2), 5(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in rule 3.1(7) inserted (1.7.2022) by The Faculty Jurisdiction (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/155), rules 1(2), 5(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 3.1 in force at 1.1.2016, see rule 28.1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "O.J. L218, 13.8.2008, pp 30-47. The United Kingdom Accreditation Service was appointed as the national accreditation body by S.I. 2009/3155."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1568/rule/3.1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:33:22.575744+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."
}