Statutory Instruments
ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, ENGLAND
Made (Sealed by the Church Commissioners)
18th July 1991
Laid before the General Synod in draft
Laid before Parliament
26th July 1991
Coming into force
1st January 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 1990(3) is hereby revoked.
4. This Order may be cited as the Parochial Fees Order 1991, and shall come into operation on the 1st of January 1992.
The draft of this Order was approved by the General Synod of the Church of England on the 15th day of July 1991
P. J. C. Mawer
Secretary General
The COMMON SEAL of the Church Commissioners was hereunto affixed this 18th day July 1991
J. E. Shelley
Secretary
| Col. 1 | Col. 2 | Col. 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fee payable to Incumbent | Fee payable to Parochial Church Council | TOTAL FEES PAYABLE | |
| £.p | £.p | £.p | |
BAPTISMSCertificate issued at time of baptism | 4.00 | – | 4.00 |
| Short certificate of baptism given under section 2 Baptismal Registers Measure 1961(4) | 2.00 | – | 2.00 |
MARRIAGESPublications of banns of marriage | 5.00 | 2.00 | 7.00 |
| Certificate of banns issued at time of publication | 4.00 | – | 4.00 |
| Marriage service | 27.00 | 27.00 | 54.00 |
FUNERALS AND BURIALS
| |||
| For funeral service in church | 17.00 | 12.00 | 29.00 |
| Burial in churchyard immediately after service in church | – | 29.00 | 29.00 |
| Burial in consecrated part of cemetery immediately after service in church | – | – | NIL |
| Burial in churchyard on separate occasion | 10.00 | 29.00 | 39.00 |
| Burial in consecrated part of cemetery on separate occasion | 10.00 | – | 10.00 |
B. No service in church | |||
| Service in consecrated part of cemetery | 29.00 | – | 29.00 |
| Burial in churchyard | 10.00 | 29.00 | 39.00 |
C. Certificate issued at time of burial | 4.00 | – | 4.00 |
MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARDSErected with consent of incumbent under
| 3.00 | 2.00 | 5.00 |
| 7.00 | 8.00 | 15.00 |
| 12.00 | 14.00 | 26.00 |
| 30.00 | 32.00 | 62.00 |
| 14.00 | – | 14.00 |
SEARCHES IN CHURCH REGISTERS, ETCSearching registers of marriages for period before 1837
| 4.00 | 2.00 | 6.00 |
| 3.00 | 1.00 | 4.00 |
Searching registers of baptisms or burials (including provision of one copy of any entry therein)
| 4.00 | 2.00 | 6.00 |
| 3.00 | 1.00 | 4.00 |
| Each additional copy of an entry in a register of baptisms or burials | 4.00 | 2.00 | 6.00 |
| Inspection of instrument of apportionment or agreement for exchange of land for tithes deposited under Tithe Act 1836(6) | 2.00 | – | 2.00 |
| Furnishing copies of above (for every 72 words) | 2.00 | – | 2.00 |
1. No fee is payable in respect of the burial of a still-born infant, or for the funeral or burial of an infant dying within the neo-natal period of 28 days after birth.
2. Where cremated remains are buried in or under a church or in a closed churchyard, the fees payable to the incumbent and the parochial church council are:
(i)where burial is authorised by a general faculty, the same as those laid down in Part I of this table for burial in a churchyard;
(ii)where burial is authorised by a particular faculty, such sums as may be determined by the chancellor.
3. The fees marked(5) include fees for the original inscription. Where a monument in a churchyard is erected or an additional inscription on a monument is made under the authority of a particular faculty the fees payable to the incumbent and the parochial church council or either of them shall be such sums as may be determined by the chancellor who shall specify the persons entitled to receive them.
4. Where a faculty is granted in connection with the erection of a monument or tablet in a church or any additional inscription thereon, the fees payable to the incumbent and the parochial church council or either of them shall be determined by the chancellor who shall specify the persons entitled to receive them.
5. Unless the incumbent has signed a Deed of Assignment in favour of the Diocesan Board of Finance he may direct either generally or in particular cases that all or part of any fee which would otherwise be payable to him shall be payable to the minister performing the service or duty.
6. Payment of any of the fees prescribed by this table does not confer any right to construct a new vault or an exclusive right to a grave or vault. Where a faculty is granted conferring rights for a period specified in the faculty, the fees payable to the incumbent and the parochial church council or either of them shall be determined by the chancellor who shall specify the persons entitled to receive them.
7. The search fee relates to a `particular search' where the approximate date of the baptism, marriage or burial is known. The fee for a more general search of a church register would be negotiable with the incumbent and the parochial church council.
(This note is not part of the Order)
Article 1 and the Schedule establish a new table of fees payable for certain matters in connection with baptisms, marriages and burials, for the erection of monuments in churchyards and for other miscellaneous matters. The fees are in substitution for fees prescribed by the Parochial Fees Order 1990.