ORDER OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL, APPROVING TABLE OF ECCLESIASTICAL FEES AND PAYMENTS.

1908 No. 879

ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, ENGLAND

3. Ecclesiastical Fees and Payments

ORDER OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL, APPROVING TABLE OF ECCLESIASTICAL FEES AND PAYMENTS.

By the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.

PRESENT,

Earl of Crewe.

Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane.

Mr George Russell.

Whereas there was this day read at the Board a Table of Ecclesiastical Fees and Payments settled by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, and the Archbishop of York, in pursuance of the provisions of the Acts 1 and 2 Victoria, cap. 106, and 30 and 31 Victoria, cap. 135:

And whereas the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury have signified their Consent to the said Table so far as it relates to the fees and payments to be taken on the consecration of churches, chapels, and burial grounds, on the ordination of deacons and priests, and on visitations, under the provisions of the last-mentioned Act:

And whereas notice that the said Table of Fees has been submitted to His Majesty's Privy Council, has been published in the London Gazette:

Now, therefore, Their Lordships are pleased to allow the said Table of Ecclesiastical Fees and Payments, a copy of which is hereunto annexed.

A.W. FitzRoy.

TABLE OF ECCLESIASTICAL FEES

It is ordered by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord High Chancellor, and the Archbishop of York that the Orders of 10th December, 1895 (gazetted 2nd July, 1895), and 29th November, 1907 (gazetted 29th November, 1907), shall be repealed, and that in pursuance of the provisions of 1 and 2 Vict. c. 106 and 30 and 31 Vict. c. 135, the following Table and Scales of Fees be ordained, settled, and established under the provisions of the said Acts.

Fees in respect of the ordination of deacons and priests and of the presentation, nomination, collation, institution, installation, induction, or licence, or any instrument, matter, or thing connected with the admission of any spiritual person to any cathedral preferment, or benefice, throughout England and Wales, and on the consecration of churches, chapels, cemeteries and burial grounds, and on and incidental to the grant of faculties to be taken by any chancellor, vicar-general, registrar, secretary, clerk, minister, or officer to whom belong the duties of transacting or doing any of such matters and things, or preparing and sealing any of such instruments, and to the chancellors or vicars-general, registrars, and other officers of archbishops and bishops, and to archdeacons and their officials and other officers on the visitation of such archbishops and bishops and archdeacons respectively, and costs of any secretary of a bishop and any registrar of a diocese under the "Incumbents Resignation Act, 1871" (34 and 35 Vict. cap. 44).

TABLE OF FEES

 Registrar
                 of dean
                 Registrar and
                 or other chapter
                 Vicar- officer Secretary of Commissary or other
                 — — general or by usage archbishop of dean officer TOTAL
                 chancellor performing or bishop and by usage
                 the duty chapter performing
                 the duty
                 £ s d £ s d £ s d £ s d £ s d £ s d
                 1 Ordination … … — 0 5 0 2 2 0 — — 2 7 0
                 2 Presentation to a — — 2 2 0 — — 2 2 0
                 benefice if
                 prepared by the
                 bishop's secretary
                 3 Presentation to a — — — — 2 2 0 2 2 0
                 benefice in gift
                 of dean and
                 chapter if
                 prepared by
                 registrar
                 4 Nomination to a — — 1 1 0 — — 1 1 0
                 perpetual curacy
                 if prepared by
                 the bishop's
                 secretary
                 5 Nomination to a — — — — 1 1 0 1 1 0
                 perpetual curacy
                 in gift of dean
                 and chapter if
                 prepared by
                 registrar
                 6 Commission for — — 1 1 0 — — 1 1 0
                 institution when
                 issued
                 7 Commission for — — 1 1 0 — — 1 1 0
                 licence to
                 perpetual curacy
                 when issued
                 Collation
                 Institution Vide
                 Induction scale
                 Licence to post
                 perpetual
                 curacy
                 8 Dispensation to
                 hold two benefices
                 Archbishop's — — 1 1 0
                 secretary for fiat — — 4 15 6
                 9 Bishop's secretary — — 3 14 6
                 for obtaining
                 certificate of
                 value, population
                 etc. and passing
                 the dispensation
                 through the
                 offices, including
                 the fees
                 (£1 12s 6d) to the
                 Faculty Office
                10 Collation to minor — — — 0 10 6 2 2 0 2 12 6
                 canonry
                11 Collation to an 0 16 8 1 1 0 2 2 0 — — 3 19 8
                 honorary pre-bend
                 or canonry
                12 Induction to — — — — 1 1 0 1 1 0
                 honorary pre-bend
                 or canonry
                13 Collation to a 0 16 8 2 2 4 4 4 0 — — 7 3 0
                 canonry (not
                 honorary)
                14 Installation to a — — — 1 1 0 4 4 0 5 5 0
                 canonry or
                 archdeaconry
                15 Installation to a — — — 1 1 0 8 8 0 9 9 0
                 deanery
                16 Consecration of a 3 3 0 7 7 0 1 1 0 — — 11 11 0
                 church and burial
                 ground or a church
                 without a burial
                 ground
                17 Consecration of a 2 2 0 6 6 0 1 1 0 — — 9 9 0
                 cemetery or burial
                 ground
                18 Faculty (if 1
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