Care of Places of Worship Measure 1999

Section 4.

SCHEDULE 2 Amendment of Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986

1 Section 6 of the [1986 No. 2.] Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986 shall be amended as follows.

2 After subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(1A) The Fees Advisory Commission may also make recommendations as to the fees to be paid in respect of such functions performed by Diocesan Advisory Committees and archdeacons in connection with proceedings or proposed proceedings to which this subsection applies as are specified by the Commission to such persons as are so specified, and an order made under subsection (1) above may give effect to those recommendations.

• This subsection applies to proceedings for obtaining a faculty in respect of any building (including any monument, curtilage, object or structure belonging to it) which is subject to the faculty jurisdiction of a consistory court by virtue of section 3 of the Care of Places of Worship Measure 1999, not being a building which is subject to a sharing agreement made on behalf of the Church of England in pursuance of the Sharing of Church Buildings Act 1969.”.

3 In subsections (4) and (5) for the words “Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers (Fees) Order” in both places where they occur there shall be substituted the words “order made under subsection (1) above”.