Parochial Fees Order 1976
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1976/1112 |
1976 No. 1112
ECCLESIASTICAL LAW
The Parochial Fees Order 197615thJuly 1976
22ndJuly 1976
1stJanuary 1977
We, the Church Commissioners for England, in exercise of the powers conferred on us by section 2(1) of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1962(a) and all other powers enabling us in that behalf, do hereby order as follows:—
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 2(4) of the said Measure, are to be payable to the persons therein named in relation to the respective matters therein specified.
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(b);
"churchyard" includes the curtilage of a church and a burial ground of a church whether or not immediately adjoining such church;
"monument" includes headstones, crosses, kerbs, borders, vases, chains, railings, tablets, flatstones, tombstones or monuments or tombs of any other kind.
3. The provisions of the Parochial Fees Order 1972(c), other than those relating to searches in registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, are hereby revoked.
4. This Order may be cited as the Parochial Fees Order 1976, and shall come into operation on the 1st January 1977.
THE COMMON SEAL of the Church Commissioners was hereunto affixed this 18th June 1976.
S. P. Osmond, Secretary.
(L.S.)
W. D. Pattinson, Secretary General.
Approved by the General Synod of the Church of England the 15th July 1976.
(a) 10 & 11 Eliz. 2 No. 1.
(b) 15 & 16 Geo. 5. No. 1.
(c) S.I. 1972/177 (1972 I, p. 648).
SCHEDULE
TABLE OF PAROCHIAL FEES
PART I
Col. 1 Col. 2 Col. 3 Col. 4 Col. 5
Fee Fee TOTAL See See
payable payable FEES Part II Part II
to to PAY- para. 1 para. 1
incum- parochial ABLE below below
bent church
council
£ p £ p £ p £ p £ p
BAPTISMS
Certificate of baptism 1·00 — 1·00 — —
Short certificate of baptism
given under Section 2 Baptismal
Registers Measure 1961(a) 0·50 — 0·50 — —
MARRIAGES
Publication of banns of marriage 1·50 0·50 2·00 0·50 —
Certificate of banns 1·00 0·50 1·50 0·50 —
Marriage service 8·00 8·00 16·00 4·00 —
FUNERALS
Service in church before burial
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