The Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 2018

Made: 16th May 2018

Laid before Parliament: 30th July 2018

Coming into force: 1st January 2019

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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 2017 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 2019

TABLE 2 — Fees payable to provincial registrars in respect of 2019

PART A — Fees payable

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

Duties and professional services in connection with the following matters shall not fall within the scope of the fee payable under Part A to provincial registrars:

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[^f00006] 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 O Alpass — N A Blackie — W E Husselby — Josile Munro — J R Jones — G Tattersall — The Fees Advisory Commission — 16th May 2018

This Order was approved by the General Synod on 6th July 2018

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), S.I. 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]: 2018 No. 3.

[^f00004]: Section 86(6) of the 2018 Measure provides that any sum paid by a bishop or archbishop by virtue of any order made under the 2018 Measure shall be reimbursed by the Church Commissioners.

[^f00005]: S.I. 2017/797.

[^f00006]: 2003 No 3.

[^f00007]: 1994 No 3; amended by the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003.

[^f00008]: 2011 No 2.

[^f00009]: 1949 c.76.

[^f00010]: 1983 No 2.

[^f00011]: 2007 No 1.

[^f00012]: 1963 No 1.

[^f00013]: 1867 c.133.

[^f00014]: 1930 No 8.

[^f00015]: 1986 No 3.

[^f00016]: S.I. 1964/1755.

[^f00017]: 1977 No. 1 and 1993 No. 1.

[^f00018]: 2011 No. 1.

[^f00019]: S.I. 2009/2108

Duties and professional services in connection with the following matters shall not fall within the scope of the fee payable under Part A to provincial registrars:

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 or in respect of any disciplinary matters arising under or in relation to that Measure including under sections 30 and 31.

Editorial notes

[^key-80640af11ef81c37659745e8f68ebac9]: Order revoked (1.1.2020) by The Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1187), art. 4

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