{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patronage-appeals-rules-1988/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patronage-appeals-rules-1988/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1980",
  "legislation_title": "Patronage (Appeals) Rules 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patronage-appeals-rules-1988",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Respondent",
  "text": "The following persons shall be respondents to an appeal–\n(1) Any person (other than the appellant) who is registered in the register as a patron of the benefice, or in respect of whom the registrar shall certify that, if no appeal had been brought against the decision set out in the paragraph 7 notice, he would have been so registered;\n(2) Any interested person in respect of whom the chancellor shall at any time direct that he is to be a respondent;\n(3) Any person (other than the appellant) who–\n(a) is a person named as a patron of the benefice in a list prepared under paragraph 1 of Schedule 1, or who has made an application under paragraphs 3, 4 or 5 of Schedule 1 in relation to the benefice; and\n(b) is a person in respect of whom the registrar shall certify either–\n(i) that the notice of appeal either expressly or by inference disputes the entitlement of such person to be registered as a patron; or\n(ii) that the notice of appeal raises an issue as to the correctness of any information contained in the list or the register, being information in respect of which such person has made an application under paragraph 5(b) of Schedule 1;\nbut excluding Her Majesty (whether in right of her Crown or her Duchy of Lancaster or otherwise), the possessor for the time being of the Duchy of Cornwall and the Lord Chancellor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1980/article/4",
    "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."
}