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The Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 2021

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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 2021/844
(1) This Order may be cited as the Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 2021.(2) This Order comes into operation on 1st January 2022.“diocesan board of finance”, in relation to a diocese, means the board of that name constituted under the Diocesan Boards of Finance Measure 1925“the Measure” means the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018.
  • to diocesan registrars in respect of the duties of their office specified in Schedule 2; and
  • to provincial registrars in respect of the duties of their office, except the duties and professional services specified in Part B of Table 2 in Schedule 1.
    • (1) The fees set out in the second column of Table 1 of Schedule 1 are to be paid by the diocesan board of finance.(2) The fees set out in the third column of Table 1 and in Table 2 of Schedule 1 are to be paid by the diocesan bishop or archbishop
  • The Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 2020
  • A diocesan registrar is not entitled to receive any additional remuneration for the duties specified in Schedule 2 except as provided in article 6.
    • (1) Subject to paragraph (2) , nothing in this Order precludes a diocesan board of finance from agreeing to pay any sum to a diocesan registrar by way of annual fee or retainer which is additional to the annual fee payable under Table 1 of Schedule 1.be in writing;be expressed to be an agreement made in accordance with this article; andstate the period for which it is to run, or, if no such period is stated, remain binding until determined by not less than three months’ notice on either side.
  • A fee specified in Schedule 1 is to be increased by a sum for reasonable expenses of travel, subsistence and accommodation.
  • Where Value Added Tax is chargeable in respect of the provision of any service for which a fee is prescribed in this Order (including any fee specified in paragraph 4 of Schedule 2) the amount of Value Added Tax chargeable is payable in addition to that fee.
  • Diocese Payable by diocesan board of finance Liability of the diocesan bishop Total
    £ £ £
    Bath and Wells 68,982 40,508 109,490
    Birmingham 42,406 33,262 75,668
    Blackburn 45,275 40,208 85,483
    Bristol 42,447 33,264 75,711
    Canterbury 47,321 37,181 84,502
    Carlisle 49,944 34,518 84,462
    Chelmsford 76,058 44,451 120,509
    Chester 55,610 37,726 93,336
    Chichester 62,606 45,963 108,569
    Coventry 39,701 39,388 79,089
    Derby 46,969 38,466 85,435
    Durham 43,576 38,059 81,635
    Ely 48,608 37,944 86,552
    Exeter 71,881 42,011 113,892
    Gloucester 52,492 37,417 89,909
    Guildford 38,820 40,690 79,510
    Hereford 51,126 38,613 89,739
    Leeds 61,268 62,221 123,489
    Leicester 49,605 34,495 84,100
    Lichfield 69,494 44,066 113,560
    Lincoln 81,211 32,946 114,157
    Liverpool 42,913 37,976 80,889
    London 81,163 52,704 133,867
    Manchester 47,513 42,194 89,707
    Newcastle 45,484 32,654 78,138
    Norwich 83,326 34,389 117,715
    Oxford 110,948 36,256 147,204
    Peterborough 49,796 41,429 91,225
    Portsmouth 29,407 42,809 72,216
    Rochester 47,149 38,301 85,450
    St Albans 58,001 42,459 100,460
    St Edmundsbury and Ipswich 59,676 38,626 98,302
    Salisbury 70,953 40,222 111,175
    Sheffield 40,992 35,371 76,363
    Southwark 58,442 51,583 110,025
    Southwell and Nottingham 44,825 37,953 82,778
    Truro 46,823 34,504 81,327
    Winchester 50,781 39,242 90,023
    Worcester 41,829 38,815 80,644
    York 70,182 43,297 113,479
    • Duties and professional services in connection with the matters mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) do not fall within the scope of the annual fee payable to provincial registrars.The matters referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are advice or other work in connection with disciplinary proceedings against a clerk in holy orders which have been instituted under section 10 of the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003giving advice to the diocesan bishop, suffragan bishops, archdeacons, chairs of the houses of the diocesan synod, rural deans, lay chairs and secretaries of deanery synods, incumbents and all other clergy, beneficed or licensed in the diocese, on any legal matter properly arising in connection with the discharge of their respective ecclesiastical or synodical offices, and giving of advice to chairs and secretaries of diocesan boards, councils and committees on any legal matter properly arising in connection with the business of the respective boards, councils and committees;acting as registrar to the diocesan synod and attendance at its meetings;attendance at the bishop’s council and standing committee if required by that committee;occasional attendance at meetings of diocesan boards, councils and committees for the purpose of giving advice on specific matters;maintaining all such records of the diocese as are customarily kept by the diocesan registrar including the making of entries in those records, and the making of searches and reports on matters recorded in the registry or in documents held in the diocesan muniment room at the request of persons or bodies referred to in paragraphs (a) and (f) ;giving advice to churchwardens and secretaries of parochial church councils on any legal matter properly arising in connection with their duties or official business;giving advice to any person concerned in or with the administration of an election under the Church Representation Rules on any question properly arising under those Rules;giving advice to a bona fide enquirer concerning the law of marriage, baptism, confirmation and burial of the dead according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England;giving advice to persons considering or proposing to make an application for a legal aid certificate for financial assistance from the Legal Aid Fund maintained under section 1 of the Church of England (Legal Aid) Measure 1994acting as registrar to the consistory court of the diocese except in so far as a separate fee is prescribed by Order made under the Measure or except in so far as this Order provides that a fee calculated in accordance with the Solicitors’ (Non-Contentious Business) Remuneration Order 2009attendance at episcopal visitations (other than visitations by the diocesan bishop of the cathedral church of the diocese) ;ordination;certification of ordination;presentation to a benefice;commission for institution or collation;admission to freehold office;certification of institution or collation;licensing of non-residence, for legalising house of residence;resignation (other than resignation of an incumbent) ;admission to office of rector under the Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011licensing under that Measure of a vicar in a team ministry;designation under that Measure of a parish centre of worship under Part 5 of that Measure for the purposes of the Marriage Act 1949licensing of

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