Statutory Instrument 1988 No. 1327

Parochial Fees Order 1988

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1988 No. 1327

ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, ENGLAND

Parochial Fees Order 1988

Laid before the General Synod in draft4th July 1988

The Church Commissioners for England, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1 of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986^[1], hereby make the following Order, a draft of which has been approved by the General Synod in accordance with section 2(1) of the said Measure:—

    1.    The Table of Parochial Fees set forth in the Schedule to this Order is hereby established and contains particulars of the parochial fees which, subject to the provisions of section 3 of the said Measure, are to be payable to the persons therein named in relation to the respective matters therein specified.

    2.    In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—
"burial" includes burial in a vault and the interment or deposit of cremated remains;
"chancellor" means the judge of the consistory or commissary court of the bishop or archbishop of the diocese;
"incumbent" means the incumbent of any benefice as defined by the Interpretation Measure 1925^[2];
"churchyard" includes the curtilage of a church and a burial ground of a church whether or not immediately adjoining such church;
"cemetery" means a burial ground maintained by a Burial Authority;
"monument" includes headstones, crosses, kerbs, borders, vases, chains, railings, tablets, flatstones, tombstones or monuments or tombs of any other kind.

    3.    The Parochial Fees Order 1986^[3] is hereby revoked.

    4.    This Order may be cited as the Parochial Fees Order 1988, and shall come into operation on the 1st January 1989.

The draft of this Order was approved by the General Synod of the Church of England the sixth day of July 1988.

W. D. Pattinson

Secretary-General

The COMMON SEAL of the Church Commissioners was hereunto affixed this fourteenth day of July 1988.

J. E. Shelley

Secretary

[1] 1986 No. 2. back

[2] 1925 15 & 16 Geo. 5 No. 1. back

[3] S.I. 1986/1148. back

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