Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers (Fees) Order 1987

• Citation: S.I. 1987/1297
• Sections: 16

Section 1

The Fees appearing in the Schedule to the Order are established. The Tables of the Schedule contain particulars of the fees which are to be received, after the commencement of this Order, by the ecclesiastical judges and legal officers named in the schedule for the carrying out by them of the duties of their offices specified in the Schedule.

Section 2

The Fees established and set out in items 3, 4 and 5 of Part II of Table I and Table II of the Schedule to the Legal Officers' Fees Order 1986 shall no longer be payable.

Section 3

(a) Subject to the provisions of this paragraph nothing in this Order shall preclude a diocesan board of finance from agreeing to pay an additional fee to a diocesan registrar by way of annual fee or retainer (hereinafter called a “supplementary annual fee”) which is in addition to any fee or fees prescribed by Order made under the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986.

(b) Such supplementary annual fee may be agreed in respect of services for which fees are prescribed by Table II and for which the diocesan registrar has agreed with the diocesan board of finance that he will not receive the fees prescribed in the said Table.

(c) An agreement made under sub-paragraph (a) above shall be expressed to be a payment by way of supplementary annual fee.

(d) Any agreement made under sub-paragraph (a) above shall be in writing. The period for which the agreement is to run shall be stated in the agreement. In the absence of any such statement the agreement shall remain binding until determined by not less than three months' notice on either side.

(e) The body responsible for paying a supplementary annual fee shall be the diocesan board of finance.

Section 4

A fee specified in the Schedule to this Order may be increased by a sum for reasonable expenses of travel, subsistence and accommodation.

Section 5

Where Value Added Tax is chargeable in respect of the provision of any service for which a fee is prescribed in this Order there shall be payable in addition to that fee the amount of the Value Added Tax.

Section 6

This Order may be cited as the Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers (Fees) Order 1987 and shall come into force on the first day of January 1988.

Section 1

Archdeacon’s Certificate. Fee payable on application (rule 3(1)).

Section 1

Fee payable to Provincial Registrar for permission under Overseas and Other Clergy (Ministry and Ordination) Measure 1967

Section 2

Major Faculty (being matters enumerated by the Chancellor). Fees payable on lodging Petition (rule 4(1)) (see note(a) ).

Section 2

Annual fee for Vicar-General of the Province of Canterbury

Section 3

Minor Faculty (all other cases). Fees payable on lodging Petition (rule 4(1)) (see note (a)).

Section 3

Annual fee for Vicar-General of the Province of York

Section 4

On the Judge giving directions under rule 8 that an application for an Archdeacon’s Certificate is to be treated as a Petition for a Major Faculty, the applicant, if he wishes to proceed, shall pay a further fee of

Section 5

On the Judge giving directions under rule 8 that an application for an Archdeacon’s Certificate is to be treated as a Petition for a Minor Faculty, the applicant, if he wishes to proceed, shall pay a further fee of

Section 6

Additional fees where the issue, whether opposed or unopposed, whether interlocutory or final, is to be heard in Court or Chambers—

(a) cases before the Chancellor’s Court or the Court of Arches or the Chancery Court of York—

Section 7

Preparatory & ancillary work and correspondence (if any) not to exceed without the sanction of the Chancellor or the Presiding Judge of the Appellate Court.