Ecclesiastical Fees (Amendment) Measure 2011

4 Consequential amendments and repeals E

(1) The 1986 Measure shall be further amended as follows—

(a) section 3 is repealed; and

(b) in section 10—

(i) at the beginning of the definitions there shall be inserted the following definitions—

• ““church” means a parish church, a place licensed for public worship by the bishop under section 29(1) or a building designated as a parish centre of worship by the bishop under section 29(2) of the Pastoral Measure 1983 (1983 No. 1) and, in relation to marriage only, a public chapel licensed for the solemnization of marriages under section 20 of the Marriage Act 1949 or an authorised chapel within the meaning of section 78(1)(a) of that Act, provided that the marriage takes place in accordance with the licence or as mentioned in section 78(1)(a), as the case may be, but does not include any church or chapel in or belonging to any extra-parochial place which is licensed by the bishop under section 21 of that Act and “churchyard” shall be construed accordingly;

• “churchyard” includes the curtilage of a church and a burial ground of a church, whether or not immediately adjoining a church;”,

(ii) the definition of “parish” shall be omitted, and

(iii) for the definition of “parochial fees” there shall be substituted the following definition—

““parochial fees” means any fees prescribed in respect of any of the matters set out in Schedule A1.”.

(2) The enactments referred to in Schedule 2 shall have effect subject to the amendments set out in that Schedule, being amendments consequential on Part 1.

(3) In section 20(1) of the Marriage Act 1949 the words “provisions concerning the amount, appropriation or apportionment of dues and such other” are repealed.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 4 in force at 1.7.2011 by 2011 No. 1, art. 2