Ecclesiastical Fees (Amendment) Measure 2011

5 Transitional provisions

(1) Any member of the Fees Advisory Commission holding office on the coming into force of Part 2 shall continue in office until a new member is nominated or appointed in that member’s place.

(2) Any incumbent holding office on the coming into force of this section who is entitled to receive a fee relating to any matter under a Parochial Fees Order shall, if he or she—

(a) has not assigned that fee to the diocesan board of finance of the diocese in which the benefice of which he or she is the incumbent is situated or, in the case of an incumbent of a benefice comprising a parish of which a cathedral is the parish church, to the corporate body of the cathedral, and

(b) notifies the bishop of the diocese in writing within the period of six months from the coming into force of this section that he or she wishes to preserve that entitlement,

so long as he or she holds office, be entitled to receive the fee which would, apart from this subsection, be payable to the diocesan board of finance or the corporate body of the cathedral, as the case may be.

(3) Any Parochial Fees Order in force on the coming into force of Part 1 shall continue in force until it is replaced or amended by a subsequent Parochial Fees Order.