{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vestries-act-1831repealed-161992/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vestries-act-1831repealed-161992/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Will4/1-2/60",
  "legislation_title": "Vestries Act 1831(repealed 1.6.1992)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vestries-act-1831repealed-161992",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Manner of adopting it in parishes where inhabitants do not assemble in open vestry.",
  "text": "When in any parish certain of the ratepayers thereof may desire that the said parish should come under the operation of this Act, then and in that case any number of ratepayers amounting at least to one fifth of the ratepayers of such parish, or any number of ratepayers amounting at least to fifty parishioners, may, on some day between the first day of December and the first day of March, deliver a requisition by them signed, and describing their places of residence, to the churchwardens, or to one of them, serving for the said parish, requiring of the said churchwardens to ascertain according to the manner hereinafter mentioned whether or not a majority of the ratepayers of the said parish do wish and require that this Act and the provisions thereof should be adopted therein; and which requisition may be in the form or to the tenor and effect following; (that is to say,)\nForm of requisition.\n’To the Churchwardens of the Parish of [insert here thename of the parish].\nWe, whose names are hereunto subscribed, being ratepayers resident in the said parish, and respectively rated or assessed to the relief of the poor thereof, do hereby require you the said churchwardens to ascertain and determine the adoption or non-adoption of an Act of the second year of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter , intituled “An Act” [here insert the title of the Act].\nDated this day of in the year of our Lord .’",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/1-2/60/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:52:20.915885+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."
}