Statutory Instrument 1988 No. 1979

Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 1988

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1988 No. 1979

ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, ENGLAND
FEES

Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 1988

We, the Fees Advisory Commission constituted in accordance with the provisions of section 4 of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986^[1] in the exercise of the powers conferred by section 5 do hereby order as follows:—

    1.    The Fees appearing in the Schedule to this Order are established. The Tables of the Schedule contain particulars of the Annual Fees which are to be received, after the commencement of this Order, by the legal officers named in Table I of the Schedule (hereinafter referred to as "Table I") in respect of the carrying out by them of the duties of their offices specified in the Appendix hereto (hereinafter referred to as "the Appendix") and by the legal officers names in Table II of the Schedule in respect of the carrying out by them of the duties of their offices.

    2.    The Fees established and set out in the second column of Table I of the Schedule are to be paid by the diocesan board of finance. The fees established and set out in the third column of Table I and Table II of the Schedule are the liability of the diocesan bishop or archbishop, subject to the provisions of section 8 of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986.

    3.    The Fees established and set out in Tables I and II of the Schedule to The Legal Officers (Annual Fees) 1987^[2] shall no longer be payable.

    4.    The diocesan registrar shall perform the duties and provide the professional services set forth in the Appendix in consideration of the annual fee set out in Table I to this Order for his diocese and shall not be entitled to receive any other remuneration for such duties or services save as provided by this Order.

    5.    
 (a) Subject to the provisions of this paragraph nothing in this Order shall preclude a diocesan board of finance from agreeing to pay an additional fee to a diocesan registrar by way of annual fee or retainer (hereinafter called a "supplementary annual fee") which is in addition to the annual fee payable under Table I.
 (b) An agreement made under sub-paragraph (a) above shall be expressed to be an agreement for a payment by way of supplementary annual fee.
 (c) Any agreement made under sub-paragraph (a) above shall be in writing. The period for which the agreement is to run shall be stated in the agreement. In the absence of any such statement the agreement shall remain binding until determined by not not less than three months' notice on either side.
 (d) The body responsible for paying a supplementary annual fee shall be the diocesan board of finance.

    6.    A fee specified in the Schedule to this Order may be increased by a sum for reasonable expenses of travel, subsistence and accommodation.

    7.    Where Value Added Tax is chargeable in respect of the provision of any service for which a fee is prescribed in this Order (including any fee specified in paragraph 4 of the Appendix) there shall be payable in addition to that fee the amount of the Value Added Tax.

    8.    This Order may be cited as the Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 1988 and shall come into operation on the first day of January 1989.

Dated this 27th day of May 1988

J. R. Cumming-Bruce

A. Black

T. A. C. Coningsby

D. Lovelock

B. M. M. O'Connor

Approved by the General Synod

W. D. Pattinson

Secretary-General

the 8th day of November 1988

[1] 1986 No.2. back

[2] S.I. 1987/1296. back

Explanatory Note