{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stipends-cessation-of-special-payments-measure-2005/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stipends-cessation-of-special-payments-measure-2005/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/2005/1",
  "legislation_title": "Stipends (Cessation of Special Payments) Measure 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stipends-cessation-of-special-payments-measure-2005",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Measure —\n“annual personal grant” means any grant payable under section 2 of the 1976 Measure;\n“cessation date” means the date specified in the notice served on an incumbent under section 1(2) above or, where the Commissioners have allowed a later date under section 1(3) above, that date;\n“the Commissioners” means the Church Commissioners;\n“guaranteed annuity” has the same meaning as in section 1(5) of the 1976 Measure;\n“the 1976 Measure” means the Endowments and Glebe Measure 1976 (1976 No. 4); and\n“year” means the financial year of the Commissioners.\n(2) Any reference to the income account of a diocesan stipends fund means the income account required to be kept under section 1 of the Diocesan Stipends Funds Measure 1953 (1953 No. 2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at 1.7.2005 by S.I. 2005/3, Instrument made by Archbishops"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/2005/1/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:22:39.398465+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."
}