Parochial Fees Order 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/1327
• Sections: 11

Section 1

The Table of Parochial Fees set forth in the Schedule to this Order is hereby established and contains particulars of the parochial fees which, subject to the provisions of section 3 of the said Measure, are to be payable to the persons therein named in relation to the respective matters therein specified.

Section 2

In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—

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

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

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

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

“cemetery” means a burial ground maintained by a Burial Authority;

“monument” includes headstones, crosses, kerbs, borders, vases, chains, railings, tablets, flatstones, tombstones or monuments or tombs of any other kind.

Section 3

The Parochial Fees Order 1986 is hereby revoked.

Section 4

This Order may be cited as the Parochial Fees Order 1988, and shall come into operation on the 1st January 1989.

Section 1 Clerks and Sextons

In certain parishes there will still be a person who

(i) was employed in a parish immediately before 1st January 1977 (the date on which the Parochial Fees Order 1976 came into operation) as a parish clerk or sexton; or

(ii) under the terms of his or her employment carried out the duties of a clerk or sexton and was entitled to fees payable for such duties.

That person is, in relation to that parish, entitled to be paid the sum specified in column 4 for performing a clerk’s duties or that in column 5 for performing a sexton’s duties; and the sum shown in column 2 as payable to the parochial church council shall be reduced accordingly.

Where there is no person entitled as above to the sum specified in column 4 or column 5 (or either of them) such sum or sums are payable to the incumbent, if he was incumbent of the parish immediately before 1st January 1977; and the sum shown in column 2 as payable to the parochial church council shall be reduced accordingly.

Section 2 Burial of still-born infant

No fee is payable in respect of the burial of a still-born infant, or for the funeral or burial of an infant dying with the neo-natal period of 28 days after birth.

Section 3 Cremated remains in churches or closed churchyards

Where cremated remains are buried in or under a church or in a closed churchyard, the fees payable to the incumbent and the parochial church council are:

(i) where burial is authorised by a general faculty, the same as those laid down in Part I of this table for burial in a churchyard;

(ii) where burial is authorised by a particular faculty, such sums as may be determined by the chancellor.

Section 4 Monuments in churchyards

The fees marked include fees for the original inscription. Where a monument in a churchyard is erected or an additional inscription on a monument is made under the authority of a particular faculty the fees payable to the incumbent and the parochial church council or either of them shall be such sums as may be determined by the chancellor who shall specify the persons entitled to receive them.

Section 5 Monuments in churches

Where a faculty is granted in connection with the erection of a monument or tablet in a church or any additional inscription thereon, the fees payable to the incumbent and the parochial church council or either of them shall be determined by the chancellor who shall specify the persons entitled to receive them.

Section 6 The incumbent's fees

The incumbent may direct either generally or in particular cases that any fee which would otherwise be payable to him shall be payable to the minister performing the service or duty.

Section 7 Reservation of grave space: vaults

Payment of any of the fees prescribed by this table does not confer any right to construct a new vault or an exclusive right to a grave or vault. Where a faculty is granted conferring rights for a period specified in the faculty, the fees payable to the incumbent and the parochial church council or either of them shall be determined by the chancellor who shall specify the persons entitled to receive them.