{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/incumbents-vacation-of-benefices-measure-1977/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/incumbents-vacation-of-benefices-measure-1977/section-19.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": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Meaning of “benefice”.",
  "text": "Without prejudice to section 6(2) of this Measure, in this Measure “benefice” means the office of rector or vicar, with cure of souls, including the office of vicar in a team ministry established under the Pastoral Measure 1968 or the Pastoral Measure 1983 but does not include any office in a Royal Peculiar nor the office of dean of a parish church cathedral; and the reference to a parish church cathedral is to be read with section 40(2) of the Cathedrals Measure 2021.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 19 inserted (1.9.1994) by 1993 Measure No. 1, s. 14(1), Sch. 3 para.9 (with s. 15); Instrument dated 25.7.1994 made by Archbishops of Canterbury and York"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 19 substituted (coming into force in accordance with s. 53(3) of the amending Measure) by Cathedrals Measure 2021 (No. 2), Sch. 4 para. 20 (with ss. 42(4), 48, 52(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1968 No. 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/1977/1/section/19",
    "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."
}