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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-commons-removal-of-clergy-disqualification-act-2001/section-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2001/13",
  "legislation_title": "House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-commons-removal-of-clergy-disqualification-act-2001",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Removal of disqualification of clergy",
  "text": "(1) A person is not disqualified from being or being elected as a member of the House of Commons merely because he has been ordained or is a minister of any religious denomination.\n(2) But a person is disqualified from being or being elected as a member of that House if he is a Lord Spiritual.\n(3) Accordingly—\n(a) Schedule 1 (which makes amendments consequential on this section) has effect, and\n(b) the enactments mentioned in Schedule 2 (which relate to the disqualification of clergy from membership of the House of Commons) are repealed to the extent specified in that Schedule.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/13/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:05.318160+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."
}