{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/places-of-worship-registration-act-1855/section-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/18-19/81",
  "legislation_title": "Places of Worship Registration Act 1855",
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  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "15 & 16 Vict. c. 36. repealed, but places of worship certified thereunder to have force, etc.",
  "text": "The said Act of the fifteenth and sixteenth years of Her Majesty, chapter thirty-six, shall be repealed: Provided always, that the certifying thereunder before the passing of this Act of any place of meeting for religious worship shall, subject to the provisions herein-after contained, have the same force and effect from the time of such certifying as if the same had been duly certified, registered, and recorded, as before the passing of the said Act of the fifteenth and sixteenth years of Her Majesty, chapter thirty-six, was required by law, and such Act and this Act had not been passed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1852 c. 36"
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/18-19/81/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:18:46.458034+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."
}