The Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 1995

4.  For the avoidance of doubt work in connection with the following matters shall not fall within the scope of the annual fee but a fee calculated in accordance with the Solicitors' (Non-Contentious Business) Remuneration Order 1994 shall be payable—

(i) Conveyancing and drafting of documents other than those referred to in paragraph 1 sub-paragraphs L and M hereof;

(ii) Matters relating to individual diocesan, parochial or educational trusts or to individual pieces of diocesan glebe property;

(iii) Litigation;

(iv) Acting as secretary to the Vacancy in See Committee constituted under The Vacancy in See Committees Regulation 1993 on a vacancy in the see of the Diocesan Bishopric;

(v) Deposition or deprivation consequent upon proceedings in secular courts, including the following—

(a) Service of notice on priest or deacon of intention to depose him from Holy Orders under rule 49(1) of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction (Discipline) Rules 1963 (the fee is payable by the bishop)

(b) Carrying out of a duty or exercising of a discretion following proceedings referred to in section 55 of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963 (the fee is payable by the bishop);

(vi) Pronouncing of censure under section 31 of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963 with the consent of the accused (the fee is payable by the bishop);

(vii) Work undertaken on behalf of a person who is not an official in the diocese or on behalf of a body which is not a diocesan board or council in connection with the following matters—

• Consecration or licensing of a public cemetery, a private burial ground or a private chapel

• Licensing the chapel of an extra-parochial place for a marriage of persons living or residing within that place

• Notification under section 2 of the Benefices (Transfer of Rights of Patronage) Measure 1930 (in relation to a guild church in the City of London) (the fee to be paid in such proportions as may be agreed between the transferor and the transferee, and in the absence of such agreement the fee to be paid by the transferee);

(viii) Removal of the legal effects of consecration under section 22 of the Care of Churches and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1991;

(ix) Work carried out in relation to the register of patrons under Part I of the Patronage (Benefices) Measure 1986 where a fee calculated in accordance with the Solicitor’s (Non-Contentious Business) Remuneration Order 1994 is payable under the Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers (Fees) Order for the time being in force made under section 6 of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986;

(x) Acting as Chapter Clerk (whether or not the diocesan Registrar holds the office of Chapter Clerk) and in particular doing the following work, namely work in connection with the following matters—

• Installation to a Deanery

• Installation to a Canonry or Prebend (whether Residentiary or Honorary) or to an Archdeaconry

• Admission to a Minor Canonry

(These fees are payable out of Capitular Revenues);

(xi) Attendance at and work in connection with any visitation by the Diocesan Bishop of the Cathedral Church of the Diocese and in connection with any action taken or proposed to be taken by the Diocesan Bishop under the Care of Cathedrals (Supplementary Provisions) Measure 1994.