Statutory Instrument 1992 No. 1747

Parochial Fees Order 1992

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1992 No. 1747

ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, ENGLAND

Parochial Fees Order 1992

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 1991^[3] is hereby revoked.

    4.    This Order may be cited as the Parochial Fees Order 1992, and shall come into operation on the 1st January 1993.

The draft of this Order wasapproved by the General Synod of the Church of England on the
13th day of July 1992

P. J. C. Mawer

Secretary General

THE COMMON SEAL of the Church Commissioners was hereunto affixed this
14th day of July 1992

P. Locke

Secretary

[1] 1986 No. 2. back

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

[3] S.I. 1991/1758. back

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