SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 6 AMENDMENT OF ECCLESIASTICAL FEES MEASURE 1986

Section 10.

1

The M1Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986 shall be amended as follows.

2

In section 5 (Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Orders)—

a

in subsection (1)—

i

after the words “paid to” there shall be inserted the words “ ecclesiastical judges and ”;

ii

the words “(to be known as a “Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order”)” shall be omitted;

b

in subsection (2) at the end there shall be inserted the words “ , including provision for payments in respect of reasonable expenses incurred by ecclesiastical judges and legal officers on travel, subsistence, accommodation and the holding of court hearings ”;

c

in subsections (4) and (5) for the words “a Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order” in both places where they occur there shall be substituted the words “ an order made under subsection (1) above ”.

3

In section 6 (Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers (Fees) Orders)—

a

in subsection (1) for the words from “(not, in the case of legal officers” to the end there shall be substituted the words “ to such persons as are so specified, and the Commission may make an order to give effect to their recommendations ”;

b

in subsection (2) at the end there shall be inserted the words “ , including provision for payments to be made in respect of reasonable expenses incurred by ecclesiastical judges and legal officers on travel, subsistence, accommodation and the holding of court hearings ”.

4

In section 10 (interpretation)—

a

in the definition of “ecclesiastical judges” at the end there shall be inserted the words “ , and the deputies of any of them ”;

b

in the definition of “legal officers” at the end there shall be inserted the words “ , and the deputy provincial and diocesan registrars ”.