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Statutory Instrument 1990 No. 1439

Ecclesiastical Judges and legal Officers (Fees) Order 1990

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1990 No. 1439

ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, ENGLAND

Ecclesiastical Judges and legal Officers (Fees) Order 1990

Made (Approved by the General Synod10th July 1990
Laid before Parliament17th July 1990
Coming into force1st January 1991

    We, the Fees Advisory Commission constituted in accordance with the provisions of section 4 of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986[1] in the exercise of the powers conferred by section 6 do hereby order as follows:—
        1.    The Fees appearing in the Schedule to this Order are established. The Tables of the Schedule contain particulars of the Fees which are to be received, after the commencement of this Order, by the ecclesiastical judges and legal officers named in the Schedule for carrying out by them of the duties of their offices specified in the Schedule.
        2.    The Fees established and set out in Table IV of the Schedule to the Legal Officers Fees Order 1975[2]and in Tables I, II, III, IV and V of the Schedule to the Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers (Fees) Order 1989[3] shall no longer be payable.
        3.—
       (a) Subject to the provisions of this paragraph nothing in this Order shall preclude a diocesan board of finance from agreeing to pay an additional fee to a diocesan registrar by way of annual fee or retainer (hereinafter called a "supplementary annual fee") which is in addition to the annual fee or fees prescribed by Order made under the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986.
       (b) An agreement made under sub-paragraph (a) above shall be expressed to be an agreement for a payment by way of supplementary annual fee.
       (c) An agreement made under sub-paragraph (a) above shall be in writing. The period for which the agreement is to run shall be stated in the agreement. In the absence of any such statement the agreement shall remain binding until determined by not less than three months' notice on either side.
       (d) The body responsible for paying a supplementary annual fee shall be the diocesan board of finance.
        4.    A fee specified in the Schedule to this Order may be increased by a sum for reasonable expenses of travel, subsistence and accommodation.
        5.    
    Where Valued Added Tax is chargeable in respect of the provision of any service for which a fee is prescribed in this Order there shall be payable in addition to that fee the amount of the Value Added Tax.
        6.    
    This Order may be cited as the Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers (Fees) Order 1990 and shall come into operation on the first day of January 1991.



R. B. Gibson

A. Black

T. A. C. Coningsby

D. Lovelock

B. M. M. O'Connor

Dated this sixth day of June 1990
Approved by the General Synod Secretary-General

Derek Pattinson

the 10th day of July 1990




Notes:

[1] 1986 No. 2.

[2] S.I. 1975/1087.

[3] S.I. 1989/1242.

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