Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Parochial Fees and Scheduled Matters Amending Order 2012.
(2) It comes into operation on 1st January 2013.
(3) In this Order “the Measure” means the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986.
Amendment of Schedule A1 to the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986
2.—(1) Part 1 of Schedule A1 to the Measure is amended as follows.
(2) Under “Marriages” omit “Service of Prayer and Dedication after a Civil Marriage, in church” and “Service of Thanksgiving for marriage in church”.
(3) Under “Funerals and Burials of Persons Aged 16 Years or More” omit “Memorial service in church”.
Prescribed fees
3.—(1) Each Table of Parochial Fees set out in Part 1 of the Schedule prescribes, in respect of the period to which it relates, the amount of the parochial fees payable to a parochial church council and to a diocesan board of finance in respect of the matters specified.
(2) Paragraph (1) and provision made by the Tables in Part 1 of the Schedule are subject to section 1(8) of the Measure (which provides that where the relevant parish is a parish of which a cathedral is the parish church, any fees which would, apart from that subsection, be payable to the parochial church council or to the diocesan board of finance, shall, instead, be payable to the corporate body of the cathedral).
(3) Part 2 of the Schedule applies in relation to the parochial fees which are prescribed in the Tables in Part 1.
Revocation of 2010 Order
4. The Parochial Fees Order 2010(1) is revoked.
The draft of this Order was approved, with amendments, by the General Synod on 7th February 2012
C.J. Podmore
Clerk to the Synod
Church House, Westminster
The Common Seal of the Archbishops’ Council was affixed on 29th March 2012
D. P. White
M. Robinson
Church House, Westminster