The Parochial Fees (Amendment) Order 2023

Made: 9th February 2023

Laid before Parliament: 28th February 2023

Coming into force: 1st March 2023

The Archbishops’ Council, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1 and 2 of that Measure[^f00002], makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Parochial Fees (Amendment) Order 2023.

• (2) This Order comes into force on the day after the day on which it is laid before Parliament.

Prescribed fees: amendment

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• (1) In article 6 of the Parochial Fees and Scheduled Matters Amending Order 2019[^f00003] (prescribed fees), in paragraph (3) (determination of fees for each calendar year), for sub-paragraph (a) (but not the following “and”) substitute—

(a) increased by the lower of— (i) the percentage by which the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) for August in Year A is greater than that for August in the calendar year preceding Year A, and (ii) 5%,

• (2) The amendment made by paragraph (1) applies only to parochial fees incurred in respect of a matter occurring—

• (a) after the commencement of this Order, and

• (b) before the end of 2024.

• (3) In its application to the calendar year 2024, article 6 of the Parochial Fees and Scheduled Matters Amending Order (as amended by paragraph (1) of this article) is to have effect as if the first reference in paragraph (3) to Year A (which, in that case, is the calendar year 2023) were a reference to the part of Year A occurring after the commencement of this Order.

Signed

The draft of this Order was approved by the General Synod on 8th February 2023.

Jenny Jacobs — Acting Clerk to the Synod

Signed on behalf of the Archbishops’ Council by two authorised officers

Joanna Woolcock — Officer

David White — Officer — 9th February 2023

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order is made under section 2 of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986 and amends the Parochial Fees and Scheduled Matters Amending Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/752) so as to provide that parochial fees under article 6 of that Order increase for the remainder of 2023 and for the whole of 2024 by whichever is the lower of the Consumer Prices Index and 5%.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1986 No. 2. Amendments have been made to section 2 by section 2 of the Ecclesiastical Fees (Amendment) Measure 2011 (No. 2) and by paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to S.I. 1998/1715.

[^f00002]: Amendments have been made to section 1 by section 1 of the Ecclesiastical Fees (Amendment) Measure 2011 and section 8 of the Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2018 (No. 7).

[^f00003]: S.I. 2019/752.