The Ecclesiastical Judges, Legal Officers and Others (Fees) Order 2019

Faculty fees payable to diocesan boards of finance

3.—(1) This article applies in relation to a petition for a faculty in respect of a building or part of a building, a curtilage of a building or an object or structure fixed to a building or part of a building or within its curtilage, which is subject to the faculty jurisdiction by virtue of section 43(1) of the 2018 Measure.

(2) On the submission of the petition, a fee of £207 is payable to the diocesan board of finance in respect of work done in relation to the petition (before or after it is submitted) by the diocesan advisory committee or an archdeacon in the diocese.

(3) But the diocesan board of finance may waive the whole or part of that fee, having regard to any financial contribution made to the funds of the diocese by—

(a) those responsible for the building concerned, or

(b) any other person who has a substantial interest in or connection with the building.

(4) No fee is payable under this article in the case of—

(a) a building of the kind specified in section 38(2)(e) of the 2018 Measure (building subject to a sharing agreement), or

(b) a chapel forming part of Lambeth Palace.

(5) In this article, “diocesan board of finance”, in relation to a diocese, means the board of that name constituted under the Diocesan Boards of Finance Measure 1925(1)

(1)

15 & 16 Geo. 5 No. 3; relevant amendments have been made by the Synodical Government Measure 1969 (1969 No. 2).