{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/incumbents-vacation-of-benefices-measure-1977/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/incumbents-vacation-of-benefices-measure-1977/section-8.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/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Ancillary provisions with respect to enquiry under Part I.",
  "text": "(1) In the case of an enquiry under Part I of this Measure, the secretary of the diocesan synod shall notify—\n(a) the secretary of the parochial church council of the parish to which the enquiry relates, and\n(b) the secretary of the parochial church council of any other parish belonging to the benefice of which the incumbent concerned is the incumbent,\nof the institution of the enquiry and ask him whether that council wishes to make representations to the committee or tribunal which is to conduct the enquiry.\n(2) In the case of an enquiry under the said Part I, the secretary of the diocesan synod shall supply each member of the committee or tribunal by which the enquiry is to be conducted with a copy of the request for such enquiry and, in the case of an enquiry to which subsection (1) above applies, shall inform the committee or tribunal , as the case may be, whether or not any parochial church council wishes to make representations to it.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(1)(2) repealed (1.9.1994) by 1993 Measure No. 1, s. 14(2), Sch.4 (with s. 15); Instrument dated 25.7.1994 made by Archbishops of Canterbury and York"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/1977/1/section/8",
    "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."
}