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Made (Approved by the General Synod) | 6th July 2002 | ||
Laid before Parliament | 24th July 2002 | ||
Coming into force | 1st January 2003 |
6.
A fee specified in the Schedule to this Order shall be increased by a sum for reasonable expenses of travel, subsistence and accommodation.
7.
Where Value Added Tax is chargeable in respect of the provision of any service for which a fee is prescribed in this Order (including any fee specified in paragraph 4 of the Appendix) there shall be payable in addition to that fee the amount of the Value Added Tax.
8.
This Order may be cited as the Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 2002 and shall come into operation on the first day of January 2003.
Dated this 15th day of May 2002.
J Laws
G F Tattersall
H M Morgan
M G S Farrell
C A Pym
T E Allen
Approved by the General Synod,the 6th day of July 2002
D M Williams
Clerk to the Synod
Licensing of clerks in holy orders and deaconesses
Delegation by bishop of episcopal and archidiaconal powers under the Dioceses Measure 1978 and Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1983
Episcopal visitations (other than visitations by the Diocesan Bishop of the Cathedral Church of the diocese)
Matters relating to sequestrations
Provision of agreements to form a Conventional District
Consent to hold preferment under the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963
Licensing of unconsecrated churches or places of worship (including temporary licences)
Ordering of Licensed Chapel to come under Faculty Jurisdiction;
M. Acting in relation to the following matters on the instructions of the Diocesan Bishop, Suffragan Bishops, Archdeacons or on the instructions of a diocesan board or council whose business properly includes such matters -
N. Work in connection with the following matters -
2.
The provisions of paragraph 1 hereof shall be restricted as follows -
(b) The Registrar shall not be required to attend meetings of diocesan boards, councils and committees except upon an occasional basis to give legal advice on specific matters. (He may attend such meetings regularly to give general advice and assistance if requested to do so by the board, council or committee in question and in that case he shall be entitled to be separately remunerated for this work.)
3.
The provisions of paragraph 2(a) hereof shall not apply to advice and assistance given as legal secretary or diocesan registrar to the Diocesan Bishop, or as diocesan registrar to Suffragan Bishops or Archdeacons.
4.
For the avoidance of doubt work in connection with the following matters shall not fall within the scope of the annual fee but a fee calculated in accordance with the Solicitors' (Non-Contentious Business) Remuneration Order 1994 shall be payable -
(vi) Advice or other work in connection with proceedings against a clerk in Holy Orders under the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963 in respect of an ecclesiastical offence which have been instituted under that Measure or are under consideration or in connection with an allegation of such an offence which is under investigation with the knowledge and approval of the bishop (excluding advice and other work for which a fee is payable under the Ecclesiastical Judges, Legal Officers and Others (Fees) Order for the time being in force made under section 6 of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986). (The fee is payable by the bishop.)
(vii) Advice or other work in connection with the revocation by reason of misconduct of a licence granted by the bishop to a Clerk in Holy Orders, deaconess or lay worker or reader to minister in the diocese, or in connection with a revocation of such a licence which is under consideration or with an allegation of misconduct by such a person which might lead to such a revocation and which is under investigation with the knowledge and approval of the bishop. (The fee is payable by the bishop.)
(viii) Advice to the diocesan bishop or other work carried out at his request in connection with proceedings or possible future proceedings under the Incumbents (Vacation of Benefices) Measures 1977 and 1993 in a case where notice has been given to the bishop under section 1A (1A) of the Incumbents (Vacation of Benefices) Measure 1977 or the giving of such notice is under consideration. (The fee is payable by the bishop.)
(ix) Pronouncing of censure under section 31 of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963 with the consent of the accused (the fee is payable by the bishop);
(x) Work undertaken on behalf of a person who is not an official in the diocese or on behalf of a body which is not a diocesan board or council in connection with the following matters -
(xi) Removal of the legal effects of consecration under section 22 of the Care of Churches and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1991;
(xii) Work carried out in relation to the register of patrons under Part I of the Patronage (Benefices) Measure 1986 where a fee calculated in accordance with the Solicitors' (Non-Contentious Business) Remuneration Order 1994 is payable under the Ecclesiastical Judges, Legal Officers and Others (Fees) Order for the time being in force made under section 6 of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986;
(xiii) Acting as Chapter Clerk (whether or not the Diocesan Registrar holds the office of Chapter Clerk) and in particular doing the following work, namely work in connection with the following matters -
(xiv) Attendance at and work in connection with any visitation by the Diocesan Bishop of the Cathedral Church of the Diocese and in connection with any action taken or proposed to be taken by the Diocesan Bishop under the Care of Cathedrals (Supplementary Provisions) Measure 1994.
5.
If any disbursements other than expenses specified in paragraph 6 of this Order are incurred in the course of providing any of the professional services in paragraph 1 above the diocesan registrar shall be entitled to charge for them separately.
Diocese | Payable by Diocesan Board of Finance | Liability of the Diocesan Bishop | Total |
£ | £ | £ | |
Bath & Wells | 28,229 | 16,577 | 44,806 |
Birmingham | 17,777 | 13,943 | 31,720 |
Blackburn | 18,863 | 16,751 | 35,614 |
Bradford | 12,920 | 17,044 | 29,964 |
Bristol | 17,005 | 13,327 | 30,332 |
Canterbury | 19,854 | 15,600 | 35,454 |
Carlisle | 20,529 | 14,188 | 34,717 |
Chelmsford | 31,428 | 18,367 | 49,795 |
Chester | 22,559 | 15,304 | 37,863 |
Chichester | 25,491 | 18,715 | 44,206 |
Coventry | 15,947 | 15,822 | 31,769 |
Derby | 19,225 | 15,744 | 34,969 |
Durham | 19,307 | 16,862 | 36,169 |
Ely | 20,446 | 15,960 | 36,406 |
Exeter | 29,309 | 17,130 | 46,439 |
Gloucester | 21,529 | 15,346 | 36,875 |
Guildford | 15,316 | 16,053 | 31,369 |
Hereford | 20,969 | 15,836 | 36,805 |
Leicester | 19,917 | 13,850 | 33,767 |
Lichfield | 27,854 | 17,663 | 45,517 |
Lincoln | 32,645 | 13,244 | 45,889 |
Liverpool | 18,519 | 16,389 | 34,908 |
London | 29,927 | 19,433 | 49,360 |
Manchester | 21,072 | 18,714 | 39,786 |
Newcastle | 17,999 | 12,921 | 30,920 |
Norwich | 33,551 | 13,846 | 47,397 |
Oxford | 41,903 | 13,694 | 55,597 |
Peterborough | 21,011 | 17,481 | 38,492 |
Portsmouth | 11,708 | 17,043 | 28,751 |
Ripon & Leeds | 16,242 | 13,966 | 30,208 |
Rochester | 18,914 | 15,364 | 34,278 |
St Albans | 23,254 | 17,023 | 40,277 |
St Edmundsbury & Ipswich | 25,286 | 16,367 | 41,653 |
Salisbury | 28,054 | 15,903 | 43,957 |
Sheffield | 17,230 | 14,868 | 32,098 |
Southwark | 22,405 | 19,775 | 42,180 |
Southwell | 18,899 | 16,001 | 34,900 |
Truro | 18,722 | 13,796 | 32,518 |
Wakefield | 16,611 | 15,729 | 32,340 |
Winchester | 21,542 | 16,647 | 38,189 |
Worcester | 16,486 | 15,299 | 31,785 |
York | 28,235 | 17,419 | 45,654 |
Fee | |
£ | |
1.
Annual fee for Joint Registrars of the Province of Canterbury |
89,630 |
2.
Annual fee for Registrar of the Province of York |
31,127 |
Prepared
1 August 2002