{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-parishes-scotland-act-1844/section-12",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/7-8/44",
  "legislation_title": "New Parishes (Scotland) Act 1844",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-parishes-scotland-act-1844",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "For administering religious service in the Gaelic language.",
  "text": "And whereas in some populous parishes and districts in the low country of Scotland, particularly in large towns and in the neighbourhood of cities and royal burghs, there are a great number of persons, natives of the highlands and islands of Scotland, who do not understand the English language so as to be capable of receiving the full benefit of religious instruction in English, or of having the ordinances of religion administered to them with advantage in that tongue: And whereas it is expedient that some provisions should be made for enabling such persons to obtain religious instruction, and to have the ordinances of religion administered to them in the Gaelic language: in disjoining or dividing any large or populous parish or parishes in which there are a great number of such persons it shall and may be lawful to make provision for the spiritual wants of such persons, by appointing religious instruction to be communicated to them, and the ordinances of religion to be dispensed among them, in the Gaelic language.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/7-8/44/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:35:25.296854+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."
}