{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-2015/rule-5.3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-2015/rule-5.3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1568",
  "legislation_title": "The Faculty Jurisdiction Rules 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-2015",
  "path": "rule/5.3",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "5.3",
  "heading": "Form of petition",
  "text": "(1) Where proceedings are to be started pursuant to a resolution of the parochial church council the petition must be in Form 3A except in a case to which paragraph (3) applies.\n(2) Where the proceedings are to be started by the relevant person or body (in the case of a building included in the list maintained by the Church Buildings Council under section 38(1) of the Measure) the petition must be in Form 3B except in a case to which paragraph (3) applies.\n(3) Where a faculty is sought—\n(a) for exhumation,\n(b) for the reservation of a grave space, or\n(c) in relation to a memorial in a churchyard or consecrated burial ground,\nthe petition must be in a form approved for that purpose by the chancellor under rule 20.6(2).",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 5.3(2) substituted (1.9.2018) by Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018 (No. 3), s. 99(2), Sch. 3 para. 43(b) (with Sch. 4 Pt. 1); S.I. 2018/720, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 5.3 in force at 1.1.2016, see rule 28.1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1568/rule/5.3",
    "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."
}