The Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 2022

Citation, commencement and interpretation E+W

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 2022.

(2) This Order comes into operation on 1st January 2023.

(3) In this Order—

(a) “diocesan board of finance”, in relation to a diocese, means the board of that name constituted under the Diocesan Boards of Finance Measure 1925(1); and

(b) “the Measure” means the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018.

Commencement Information

I1 Art. 1 in force at 1.1.2023, see art. 1(2)

Annual fees E+W

2.  Schedule 1 sets out the annual fees payable—

(a) to diocesan registrars in respect of the duties of their office specified in Schedule 2; and

(b) to provincial registrars in respect of the duties of their office, except the duties and professional services specified in Part B of Table 2 in Schedule 1.

Commencement Information

I2 Art. 2 in force at 1.1.2023, see art. 1(2)

Payment of fees E+W

3.—(1) The fees set out in the second column of Table 1 of Schedule 1 are to be paid by the diocesan board of finance.

(2) The fees set out in the third column of Table 1 and in Table 2 of Schedule 1 are to be paid by the diocesan bishop or archbishop(2).

Commencement Information

I3 Art. 3 in force at 1.1.2023, see art. 1(2)

Revocation E+W

4.  The Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 2021(3) is revoked.

Commencement Information

I4 Art. 4 in force at 1.1.2023, see art. 1(2)

Duties of the diocesan registrar E+W

5.  A diocesan registrar is not entitled to receive any additional remuneration for the duties specified in Schedule 2 except as provided in article 6.

Commencement Information

I5 Art. 5 in force at 1.1.2023, see art. 1(2)

Supplementary annual fee E+W

6.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), nothing in this Order precludes a diocesan board of finance from agreeing to pay any sum to a diocesan registrar by way of annual fee or retainer which is additional to the annual fee payable under Table 1 of Schedule 1.

(2) Any such agreement must—

(a) be in writing;

(b) be expressed to be an agreement made in accordance with this article; and

(c) state the period for which it is to run, or, if no such period is stated, remain binding until determined by not less than three months’ notice on either side.

Commencement Information

I6 Art. 6 in force at 1.1.2023, see art. 1(2)

Travel, subsistence and accommodation E+W

7.  A fee specified in Schedule 1 is to be increased by a sum for reasonable expenses of travel, subsistence and accommodation.

Commencement Information

I7 Art. 7 in force at 1.1.2023, see art. 1(2)

Value Added Tax E+W

8.  Where Value Added Tax is chargeable in respect of the provision of any service for which a fee is prescribed in this Order (including any fee specified in paragraph 4 of Schedule 2) the amount of Value Added Tax chargeable is payable in addition to that fee.

Commencement Information

I8 Art. 8 in force at 1.1.2023, see art. 1(2)

A. Spriggs

J. Munro

W.E. Husselby

R. Cooper

C. Fender

+D. Williams

L.M. Connacher

G. Tattersall

C. Smith

Fees Advisory Commission

Church House, London

27th May 2022

This Order was approved by the General Synod on 9th July 2022.

A. S. McGregor

Registrar of the General Synod