{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patronage-appeals-rules-1988/article-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patronage-appeals-rules-1988/article-28.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1980",
  "legislation_title": "Patronage (Appeals) Rules 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patronage-appeals-rules-1988",
  "path": "article/28",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Appointment of alternate registrar",
  "text": "(1) Any party may at any time apply to the chancellor for a direction that the registrar of the diocese shall cease to discharge the functions which he would otherwise discharge in relation to the appeal (in this rule and rule 29 referred to as “the registrar’s functions”).\n(2) On granting any application under paragraph (1) of this rule, the chancellor shall direct that the registrar’s functions or any of them shall be discharged in either of the following ways (or partly in the one way and partly in the other)–\n(a) by the registrar of another diocese specified by the chancellor, being a registrar who is willing to discharge those functions; or\n(b) by the chancellor (except in relation to such of the registrar’s functions as are to be discharged at the hearing of the appeal or on a taxation of costs).\n(3) Where the chancellor makes any direction under paragraph (2)(a) of this rule–\n(a) subject to sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph, the expression “the registrar” in these Rules shall from the date of that direction be treated, in relation to the appeal and the functions specified in the direction, as referring to the registrar of the other diocese specified in the direction; and\n(b) the fees payable to the registrar of the diocese in respect of the appeal shall be apportioned between the registrar of the diocese and the registrar of the other diocese specified in the direction as they shall agree, or in default of agreement as the chancellor shall direct.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1980/article/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:54:59.002697+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."
}