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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/improvement-of-land-act-1864/section-20",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/27-28/114",
  "legislation_title": "Improvement Of Land Act 1864",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/improvement-of-land-act-1864",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Consents necessary in case of church lands.",
  "text": "When the land to which the application relates, or any part of such land, is held in right of any church, chapel, or other ecclesiastical benefice, the Commissioners shall not sanction any improvement of such land, or of so much thereof as is so held, unless and until the patron of the benefice, and in England . . . the bishop of the diocese, and in Scotland the presbytery of the bounds, shall signify to the Commissioners, by writing under their hands, their respective consents to such application.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), s. 1, Sch. Pt. VIII"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/27-28/114/section/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:04:31.386960+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."
}