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Textual Amendments
F1Sch. A1 inserted (1.7.2011) by Ecclesiastical Fees (Amendment) Measure 2011 (No. 2), ss. 1(2), 6(2), Sch. 1 (with s. 5(3)); 2011 No. 1, art. 2
1EF2... “On separate occasion” means on any occasion other than immediately preceding or following on from a service in church and “immediately preceding” includes the day before the day on which the service, burial or cremation takes place and “following on” includes the day after the service, burial or cremation takes place.
Textual Amendments
F2Words in Sch. A1 Pt. 2 para. 1 omitted (1.1.2020) by virtue of The Parochial Fees and Scheduled Matters Amending Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/752), arts. 1(2), 3(2)
Textual Amendments
F3Sch. A1 Pt. 2 para. 2 cross-heading substituted (1.1.2020) by The Parochial Fees and Scheduled Matters Amending Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/752), arts. 1(2), 3(3)
2ENo fee is payable in respect of the funeral or burial of a still-born infant, or for the funeral or burial of a child dying before attaining the age of [F418 years].
Textual Amendments
F4Words in Sch. A1 Pt. 2 para. 2 substituted (1.1.2020) by The Parochial Fees and Scheduled Matters Amending Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/752), arts. 1(2), 3(4)
3EWhere cremated remains are buried in or under a church or in a closed churchyard, the fees payable to the parochial church council and the diocesan board of finance or either of them are—
(a)where burial is authorised by a general faculty, the fee prescribed for burial in a churchyard;
(b)where burial is authorised by a particular faculty, such sums as may be determined by the Chancellor [F5under section 87 of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018] , who shall specify the person or persons entitled to receive them.
Textual Amendments
F5Words in Sch. A1 para. 3(b) inserted (1.9.2018) by Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018 (No. 3), s. 99(2), Sch. 3 para. 9 (with Sch. 4 Pt. 1); S.I. 2018/720, art. 2
4EDifferent fees may be prescribed for different types of monument and a separate fee may be prescribed for inscription on a monument.
Where a monument in a churchyard is erected or an additional inscription on a monument is made under the authority of a particular faculty, the fees payable to the parochial church council and the diocesan board of finance or either of them shall be such sums as may be determined by the Chancellor [F6under section 87 of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018] who shall specify the person or persons entitled to receive them.
Textual Amendments
F6Words in Sch. A1 para. 4 inserted (1.9.2018) by Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018 (No. 3), s. 99(2), Sch. 3 para. 9 (with Sch. 4 Pt. 1); S.I. 2018/720, art. 2
5EThe search fee relates to a ‘particular search’ where the approximate date of the baptism, marriage or burial is known. The fee for a more general search of a church register is negotiable with the parochial church council and the diocesan board of finance.
6EIn this Schedule—
“ burial ” includes deposit in a vault or brick grave and the interment or deposit of cremated remains;
[F7“cemetery” means any burial ground other than a churchyard];
“ Chancellor ” means the judge of the consistory court or commissary court of the bishop or archbishop of the diocese;
[F8“lawful disposal”, in respect of cremated remains, means disposal in a manner permitted by canon;]
“ monument ” includes a headstone, cross, kerb, border, vase, chain, railing, tablet, plaque, marker, flatstone, tombstone or tomb of any other kind;
“ prescribed ” means prescribed by a Parochial Fees Order. ]
Textual Amendments
F7Words in Sch. A1 Pt. 2 para. 6 substituted (1.1.2020) by The Parochial Fees and Scheduled Matters Amending Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/752), arts. 1(2), 3(5)
F8Words in Sch. A1 para. 6 inserted (1.1.2015) by The Parochial Fees and Scheduled Matters Amending Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/813), arts. 1(2), 3(2)