{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pluralities-act-1850-repealed-161992/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pluralities-act-1850-repealed-161992/section-6.json",
  "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  "legislation_title": "Pluralities Act 1850 (repealed 1.6.1992)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pluralities-act-1850-repealed-161992",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/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Heads of Colleges in the universities not to hold cathedral preferments except in certain cases.",
  "text": "Anything in the Pastoral Measure 1968 to the contrary notwithstanding it shall not be lawful for any spiritual person, being head ruler of any college or hall within either of the universities of Oxford or Cambridge, or being warden of the university of Durham, and also holding any benefice, to take and hold there with any cathedral preferment or any other benefice, or for any such spiritual person, also holding any cathedral preferment, to take and hold therewith any benefice: Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to prevent any such spiritual person from holding any benefices or cathedral preferment permanently attaching to or forming part of the endowment of his office.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Interpretation Measure 1925 (No. 1), s. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1968 No. 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/13-14/98/section/6",
    "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."
}