{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-ministry-register-clergy-regulations-2020/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-ministry-register-clergy-regulations-2020/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1538",
  "legislation_title": "The National Ministry Register (Clergy) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-ministry-register-clergy-regulations-2020",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations are made under section 2 of the Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2020, which requires the Archbishops’ Council to compile and maintain a national register of those who exercise ministry. These Regulations are concerned only with clergy.\nRegulation 1 provides that the Regulations come into force on 1st May 2021.\nRegulation 2 sets out the information which is required about a cleric for the purposes of the national register.\nRegulation 3 determines who, in the case of each cleric, is to provide the Archbishops’ Council with the required information about that cleric.\nRegulation 4 imposes requirements for providing the Archbishops’ Council with the required information about clerics already exercising ministry and those subsequently authorised to do so.\nRegulation 5 imposes requirements for informing the Archbishops’ Council where a cleric’s exercise of ministry is terminated or suspended.\nRegulation 6 requires the Archbishops’ Council to publish and make available the registration information in relation to each cleric other than personal contact details.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1538/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:20:16.437340+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."
}