{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/irish-church-act-1869/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/irish-church-act-1869/section-21.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/32-33/42",
  "legislation_title": "Irish Church Act 1869",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/irish-church-act-1869",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Abolition of ecclesiastical courts and ecclesiastical law.",
  "text": "On and after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one all jurisdiction, whether contentious or otherwise, of all the ecclesiastical, peculiar, exempt, and other courts and persons in Ireland at the time of the passing of this Act having any jurisdiction whatsoever exerciseable in any cause, suit, or matter, matrimonial, spiritual, or ecclesiastical, or in any way connected with or arising out of the ecclesiastical law of Ireland, shall cease ; and on and after the said first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one the Act of the session of the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter fifty-four, shall be repealed, and on and after the last-mentioned day the ecclesiastical law of Ireland, except in so far as relates to matrimonial causes and matters, shall cease to exist as law.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/32-33/42/section/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:56:33.086775+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."
}