{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patronage-benefices-rules-1987/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patronage-benefices-rules-1987/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/773",
  "legislation_title": "The Patronage (Benefices) Rules 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patronage-benefices-rules-1987",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Failure to apply for Registration",
  "text": "If at the end of the registration period the registrar has received no acknowledgement from a prospective patron to whom he has sent a notice under rule 4(b) and no other person has claimed the right of patronage in question, the registrar shall send a second notice to the prospective patron giving him a further month within which to submit his acknowledgement of the notice and advising him that where no person is registered as the patron of a benefice the Measure provides that the Diocesan Board of Patronage for the diocese shall become the patron of that benefice and requires the registrar to register that Board as patron.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/773/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:27:31.682126+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."
}