The Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 2016

Made: 5th December 2016

Laid before Parliament: 14th March 2017

Coming into force: 1st June 2017

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Citation, commencement and interpretation

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Annual fees

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Payment of fees

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Revocation of 2015 Order

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Duties of the diocesan registrar

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Supplementary annual fee

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Travel, subsistence and accommodation

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Value Added Tax

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SCHEDULE 1 — Fees payable under this Order

TABLE 1 — Fees payable to diocesan registrars in respect of 2017

TABLE 2 — Fees payable to provincial registrars in respect of 2017

PART A — Fees payable

PART B — Duties and professional services not falling within the scope of the annual fee

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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 2003[^f00005] or in respect of any disciplinary matters arising under or in relation to that Measure including under sections 30 and 31.

SCHEDULE 2 — The scope of the annual fee

Professional services to be provided by the diocesan registrar

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Restrictions on the provisions of paragraph 1

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Advice or assistance given to the diocesan bishop, suffragan bishops or archdeacons

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Work not falling within the scope of the annual fee

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Disbursements

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Signed

J Alpass — N Blackie — B Husselby — J Jones — J Rees — G Tattersall — S Trott — The Fees Advisory Commission — 5th December 2016

This Order was approved by the General Synod on 14th February 2017

Jacqui Philips — Clerk to the Synod

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1986 No 2; relevant amendments were made by the Care of Churches and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1991 (1991 No 1), the Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1995 (1995 No 2), SI 1998/1715, the Care of Places of Worship Measure 1999 (1999 No 2) and the Ecclesiastical Fees (Amendment) Measure 2011 (2011 No 2).

[^f00002]: 15 & 16 Geo. 5 No 3; relevant amendments were made by the Synodical Government Measure 1969 (1969 No 2).

[^f00003]: Section 8 of the Measure provides that any sum paid by a bishop or archbishop by virtue of any order made under the Measure shall be reimbursed by the Church Commissioners.

[^f00004]: SI 2015/1613.

[^f00005]: 2003 No 3.

[^f00006]: 1994 No 3; amended by the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003.

[^f00007]: 2011 No 2.

[^f00008]: 1949 c.76.

[^f00009]: 1983 No 2.

[^f00010]: 2007 No 1.

[^f00011]: 1963 No 1.

[^f00012]: 1867 c.133.

[^f00013]: 1930 No 8.

[^f00014]: 1986 No 3.

[^f00015]: SI 1964/1755.

[^f00016]: 1977 No 1 and 1993 No 1.

[^f00017]: 2011 No 1.

[^f00018]: SI 2009/2108

Editorial notes

[^key-57dbcb4985fb4c406eecada26a629981]: Order revoked (1.1.2018) by The Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/797), arts. 1(2), 4

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