{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-ministry-register-regulations-2026/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-ministry-register-regulations-2026/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/193",
  "legislation_title": "The National Ministry Register Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-ministry-register-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Lay ministers",
  "text": "In these Regulations, “lay minister” means—\n(a) a person authorised to exercise the office of deaconess under Canon D3,\n(b) a person authorised to exercise the office of reader under Canon E6 (and commonly known as a “licensed lay minister”),\n(c) a person authorised to serve as a lay worker under Canon E8, or\n(d) a lay person specified in a bishop’s mission order as the leader, or one of the leaders, of a mission initiative under Part 7 of the Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2011 No. 3."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/193/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:05:25.470553+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."
}