The Parochial Fees Order 1994

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(1);

• “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, atstones, tombstones or monuments or tombs of any other kind.

3.  The Parochial Fees Order 1993(2) is hereby revoked.

4.  This Order may be cited as the Parochial Fees Order 1994, and shall come into operation on the 1st January 1995.

The draft of this Order was approved by the General Synod of the Church of England on the 11th day of July 1994

P.J.C. Mawer

Secretary-General

THE COMMON SEAL of the Church Commissioners was hereunto affixed this 12th day of July 1994

P. Locke

Secretary