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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pluralities-act-1838/section-124",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pluralities-act-1838/section-124.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/1-2/106",
  "legislation_title": "Pluralities Act 1838",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pluralities-act-1838",
  "path": "section/124",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "124",
  "heading": "Definition of the terms “cathedral preferment,” and “benefice”",
  "text": "... Where the term “benefice” is used in this Act, the said term shall be understood and taken to mean benefice with cure of souls, and no other (unless it shall otherwise appear from the context), and therein to comprehend all parishes, perpetual curacies, donatives, endowed public chapels, parochial chapelries, and chapelries or districts belonging or reputed to belong, or annexed or reputed to be annexed, to any church or chapel, anything in any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed in part (E.) (1.7.2018) by Statute Law (Repeals) Measure 2018 (No. 1), s. 2(3), Sch. Pt. 2; S.I. 2018/718, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/1-2/106/section/124",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:43:12.718070+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."
}