{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parsonages-act-1865/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parsonages-act-1865/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/28-29/69",
  "legislation_title": "Parsonages Act 1865",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parsonages-act-1865",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "[Church Commissioners] may sell lands, &c. given to them for their general purposes.",
  "text": "It shall be lawful for the Church Commissioners absolutely to sell and dispose of, either altogether or in parcels, and either by public sale or by private contract, for such sum or sums of money as to the said Commissioners shall seem fair and reasonable, all houses, lands, tithes, tithe rentcharges, and hereditaments, of what nature or kind soever, which may have been or shall hereafter be given, devised, or conveyed to or acquired by the said Commissioners for the purpose generally of augmenting the maintenance of the poor clergy; and the monies to arise from every such sale shall be paid to the said Commissioners , and the receipts of their treasurer for the time being shall be sufficient discharges for the said monies, and shall effectually release and exonerate the person or persons paying the same from all responsibility in respect of the application therof; . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Church Commissioners Measure 1947 (No. 2), s. 18(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Endowments and Glebe Measure 1976 (No. 4), Sch. 8"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/28-29/69/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:03:32.648672+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}