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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pluralities-act-1850-repealed-161992/section-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/13-14/98",
  "legislation_title": "Pluralities Act 1850 (repealed 1.6.1992)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pluralities-act-1850-repealed-161992",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Explanation of term “benefice”.",
  "text": "The term “benefice” in this Act shall be taken to mean benefice with the cure of souls, and no other, 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+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/13-14/98/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:25:44.464140+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."
}