http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1245/body/madeParochial Fees Order 1989CemeteriesChurch Of EnglandBurialsFuneralsChristianityKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2015-04-29ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, ENGLANDArticle 1 and the Schedule establish a new table of fees payable for certain matters in connection with baptisms, marriages and burials, for the erection of monuments in churchyards and for other miscellaneous matters. The fees are in substitution for fees prescribed by the Parochial Fees Order 1988.
1.

The Table of Parochial Fees set forth in the Schedule to this Order is hereby established and contains particulars of the parochial fees which, subject to the provisions of section 3 of the said Measure, are to be payable to the persons therein named in relation to the respective matters therein specified.

2.

In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires–

“burial” includes burial in a vault and the interment or deposit of cremated remains;

“chancellor” means the judge of the consistory or commissary court of the bishop or archbishop of the diocese;

“incumbent” means the incumbent of any benefice as defined by the Interpretation Measure 1925

1925 15 & 16 Geo. 5 No. 1.

;

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

“cemetery” means a burial ground maintained by a Burial Authority;

“monument” includes headstones, crosses, kerbs, borders, vases, chains, railings, tablets, flatstones, tombstones or monuments or tombs of any other kind.

3.

The Parochial Fees Order 1988

S.I. 1988/1327.

is hereby revoked.

4.

This Order may be cited as the Parochial Fees Order 1989, and shall come into force on the 1st January 1990.

The draft of this Order was approved by the General Synod of the Church of England the 11th day of July 1989

W. D. Pattinson,Secretary General

THE COMMON SEAL of the Church Commissioners was hereunto affixed this 20th day of July 1989

J. E. Shelley,Secretary
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