{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/overseas-and-other-clergy-ministry-and-ordination-measure-1967/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/overseas-and-other-clergy-ministry-and-ordination-measure-1967/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/1967/3",
  "legislation_title": "Overseas and Other Clergy (Ministry and Ordination) Measure 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/overseas-and-other-clergy-ministry-and-ordination-measure-1967",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Dispensing with oath of allegiance on admission of overseas clergymen.",
  "text": "Where any overseas clergyman to whom permission has been granted under section 1 of this Measure is not a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies, and he is to be admitted to a benefice or other office to which section 5 of the Clerical Subscription Act 1865 applies, the bishop by whom he is to be admitted may dispense with the taking of the oath of allegiance.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1865 c. 122."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/1967/3/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:23:27.550959+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."
}