The Parochial Fees Order 2009

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Parochial Fees Order 2009 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2010.

Prescribed fees

2.—(1) The Table of Parochial Fees set out in Part 1 of the Schedule prescribes the amount of the parochial fees which are to be paid to the persons, in relation to the respective matters, specified in the Table.

(2) The specification in the Table of the persons to whom parochial fees are to be paid is subject to the provisions of section 3 of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986 (which makes provision as to persons to whom parochial fees are to be paid during a vacancy in a benefice and where a licence of a chapel includes provision fixing fees).

Application of Part 2 of the Schedule

3.  Part 2 of the Schedule shall apply in relation to the parochial fees which are prescribed in the Table in Part 1.

Definitions

4.  In the Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires—

“burial” includes deposit in a vault or brick grave and the interment or deposit of cremated remains;

“cemetery” means a burial ground maintained by a burial authority;

“Chancellor” means the judge of the consistory court or commissary court of the bishop or archbishop of the diocese;

“churchyard” includes the curtilage of a church and a burial ground of a church whether or not immediately adjoining such church;

“incumbent” means the incumbent of any benefice as defined by the Interpretation Measure 1925(1);

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

Revocation of 2008 Order

5.  The Parochial Fees Order 2008(2) is revoked.

The draft of this Order was approved by the General Synod on 10th July 2009

David Williams

Clerk to the Synod

Church House, Westminster

The COMMON SEAL of the Archbishops’ Council was affixed on 29th July 2009

D P White

K Norris

Church House, Westminster