The Parochial Fees Order 1999

1.  The Table of Parochial Fees set forth in Part I of 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.  Part II of the said Schedule shall apply in relation to the said parochial fees.

3.  In the Schedule to this Order, unless the context otherwise requires–

• “burial” includes deposit 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 a headstone, cross, kerb, border, vase, chain, railing, tablet, flatstone, tombstone or monument or tomb of any other kind.

4.  The Parochial Fees Order 1998(2) is hereby revoked.

5.  This Order may be cited as the Parochial Fees Order 1999 and shall come into operation on the 1st January 2000.

The draft of this Order was approved by the General Synod of the Church of England on the 10th day of July 1999

Clerk to the Synod

THE COMMON SEAL of the Archbishops' Council was hereunto affixed this 20th day of July 1999

Secretary General