Parochial Fees Order 1989
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1989No. 1245
ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, ENGLAND
Parochial Fees Order 1989
7thJuly1989
20thJuly1989
24thJuly1989
1stJanuary1990
The Church Commissioners for England, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1 of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986 ( a), hereby make the following Order, a draft of which has been approved by the General Synod in accordance with section 2(1) of the said Measure:-
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.
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;
"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.
3. The Parochial Fees Order 1988 ( c) is hereby revoked.
(a) 1986 No. 2.
(b) 1925 15 & 16 Geo. 5 No. 1.
(c) S.I. 1988/1327.
4. This Order may be cited as the Parochial Fees Order 1989, and shall come into force on the 1st January 1990.
The draft of this Order was approved by the General Synod of the Church of England the 11th day of July 1989 W. D. Pattinson, Secretary General
THE COMMON SEAL of the Church Commissioners was hereunto affixed this 20th day of July 1989
(L.S.)
J. E. Shelley, |
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Secretary |
(a) 1961 9 & 10 Eliz. 2 No. 2.
(b) 1836 c.71.
PART II
1. Clerks and Sextons
In certain parishes there will still be a person who
(i) was employed in a parish immediately before 1 January 1977 (the date on which the Parochial Fees Order 1976 ( a) 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 col...
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