Ecclesiastical Fees (Amendment) Measure 2011

Section 4(2)

SCHEDULE 2 Consequential Amendments

1 The enactments listed in this Schedule shall be amended as follows.

The Marriage Act 1949 (12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6 c. 76)

2 In section 63(1) of the Marriage Act 1949, after the word “fee” there shall be inserted the words “, payable, in the case of a fee previously payable to an incumbent, to the parochial church council of the parish,”.

The Local Authorities’ Cemeteries Order 1977 (S.I. 1977/204)

3 The Local Authorities’ Cemeteries Order 1977 shall be amended as follows—

(a) in Article 15(2), at the end there shall be added the words “, except that, in the case of fees collected for services rendered by a minister of the Church of England, the fees shall be paid to the diocesan board of finance to which fees are payable under section 1 of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986”;

(b) Article 15(4) shall be omitted; and

(c) in Article 17(1), for the words from “shall be entitled” to the end there shall be substituted the words “section 1 of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986 (1986 No. 2) shall have effect where any funeral service is conducted by a person mentioned in subsection (1) of that section”.

The Parochial Registers and Records Measure 1978 (1978 No. 2)

4 Section 20 of the Parochial Registers and Records Measure 1978 shall be amended as follows—

(a) in subsection (2)(b), for the word “incumbent” there shall be substituted the words “diocesan board of finance”;

(b) in subsection (3), after the word “incumbent” there shall be inserted the words “and to the parochial church council of the parish”; and

(c) for subsection (5) there shall be substituted the following subsection—

“(5) Nothing in subsections (2) and (3) above shall be taken as affecting the powers of local authorities under section 1 of the Local Government (Records) Act 1962 (power to promote adequate use of records).”.