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Statutory Instrument 1995 No. 1960

The Parochial Fees Order 1995

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1995 No. 1960

ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, ENGLAND

The Parochial Fees Order 1995

Laid before the General Synod in draft8th July 1995

Made (Sealed by the Church Commissioners)11th July 1995
Laid before Parliament26th July 1995
Coming into force1st January 1996

    The Church Commissioners for England, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1 of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986[1], 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 Part I of 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.    Part II of the said Schedule shall apply in relation to the said parochial fees.
        3.    In the Schedule to this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—
      "burial" includes deposit 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[2];

      "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 a headstone, cross, kerb, border, vase, chain, railing, tablet, flatstone, tombstone or a monument or tomb of any other kind.

        4.    The Parochial Fees Order 1994[3] is hereby revoked.
        5.    This Order may be cited as the Parochial Fees Order 1995 and shall come into operation on the 1st January 1996.


The draft of this Order was approved by the General Synod of the Church of England on the 8th day of July 1995

P. J. C. Mawer

Secretary General

The Common Seal of the Church Commissioners was hereunto affixed this 11th day of July 1995


P. Locke

Secretary






Notes:

[1] 1986 No. 2.

[2] 1925 No. 1 (15 & 16 Geo. 5.)

[3] S.I. 1994/2011.

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