S T A T U T O R Y I N S T R U M E N T S
1993 No. 1844
ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, ENGLAND
Parochial Fees Order 1993
The Church Commissioners for England, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1 of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986(), 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();
"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 1992( ) is hereby revoked.
4. This Order may be cited as the Parochial Fees Order 1993, and shall come into operation on the 1st January 1994.
The draft of this Order was
approved by the General Synod
of the Church of England on
the twelfth day of July 1993
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THE COMMON SEAL of the Church
Commissioners was hereunto
affixed this fourteenth day of
July 1993
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SCHEDULE
TABLE OF PAROCHIAL FEES
PART 1
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Col. 1 Col. 2 Col. 3
Fee payable Fee payable TOTAL
to incumbent to Parochial FEES
Church PAYABLE
Councl £.p £.p £.p
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BAPTISMSCertificate issued at time of
baptism 6.00 - 6.00
Short certificate of baptism
given under section 2 Baptismal
Registers Measures 1961(a) 4.00 - 4.00
MARRIAGESPublication of banns of marriage 7.00 3.00 10.00
Certificate of banns issued at
time of publication 6.00 - 6.00
Marriage service 42.00 48.00 90.00
FUNERALS AND BURIALSA. Service in churchFuneral service in church 24.00 19.00 43.00
Burial in churchyard immediately
after service in church - 70.00 70.00
Burial in cemetery or cremation
immediately after service in
church - - NIL
Burial of body in churchyard...
