{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/incumbents-vacation-of-benefices-measure-1977/schedule/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/incumbents-vacation-of-benefices-measure-1977/schedule/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/1977/1",
  "legislation_title": "Incumbents (Vacation of Benefices) Measure 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/incumbents-vacation-of-benefices-measure-1977",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A provincial tribunal shall consist of five persons appointed by the Vicar-General of the province in which the parish in question is situated.\n(2) Of the five persons to be so appointed—\n(a) one, who shall be the chairman, shall be either the chancellor of a diocese in the province for which the tribunal is to be appointed, other than the diocese in which the parish in question is situated, or a Queen’s Counsel who is a communicant member of the Church of England;\n(b) two shall be clerks in Holy Orders beneficed in or licensed to a parish in a diocese in that province other than the diocese aforesaid; and\n(c) two shall be lay persons who are communicant members of the Church of England and who reside in a diocese in that province other than the diocese aforesaid.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/1977/1/schedule/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:23:10.714339+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."
}