{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-commons-clergy-disqualification-act-1801-repealed/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-commons-clergy-disqualification-act-1801-repealed/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo3/41/63",
  "legislation_title": "House of Commons (Clergy Disqualification) Act 1801 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-commons-clergy-disqualification-act-1801-repealed",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "No person ordained a priest or deacon, or being a minister of the Church of Scotland, shall be capable of being elected a member of the House of Commons.",
  "text": "No person having been ordained to the office of priest or deacon, or being a minister of the Church of Scotland, is or shall be capable of being elected to serve in Parliament as a member of the House of Commons.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo3/41/63/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:40:25.158044+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."
}