
1 
The Fees appearing in the Schedule to this Order are established. The Tables of the Schedule contain particulars of the fees which are to be received, after the commencement of this Order, by the ecclesiastical judges and legal officers named in the Schedule for the carrying out by them of the duties of their offices specified in the Schedule.
2 
The Fees established and set out in Items 1 to 5 and 8 to 12 of Table III of the Schedule to The Legal Officers Fees Order 1975 and Tables I and II of the Schedule to the Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers (Fees) Order 1987 shall no longer be payable.
3 

(a) Subject to the provisions of this paragraph nothing in this Order shall preclude a diocesan board of finance from agreeing to pay an additional fee to a diocesan registrar by way of annual fee or retainer (hereinafter called a “supplementary annual fee”) which is in addition to any fee or fees prescribed by Order made under the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986.
(b) An agreement made under sub-paragraph (a) above shall be expressed to be an agreement for a payment by way of supplementary annual fee.
(c) Any agreement made under sub-paragraph (a) above shall be in writing. The period for which the agreement is to run shall be stated in the agreement. In the absence of any such statement the agreement shall remain binding until determined by not less than three months' notice on either side.
(d) The body responsible for paying a supplementary annual fee shall be the diocesan board of finance.
4 
A fee specified in the Schedule to this Order may be increased by a sum for reasonable expenses of travel, subsistence and accommodation.
5 
Where Value Added Tax is chargeable in respect of the provision of any service for which a fee is prescribed in this Order there shall be payable in addition to that fee the amount of the Value Added Tax.
6 
This Order may be cited as the Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers (Fees) Order 1988 and shall come into operation on the first day of January 1989.
J. R. Cumming-Bruce
A. Black
T. A. C. Coningsby
D. Lovelock
B. M. M. O'Connor
Dated this 27th day of May 1988Approved by the General Synod the
W. D. Pattinson
Secretary-General
sixth day of July 1988
SCHEDULE
TABLE I

 Dean of the Arches, Vicar General or Chancellor Registrar or other Officers by usage performing the duty
 £ £

1 
Archdeacon’s Certificate. Fee payable on application (rule 3(1)). — 13

2 
Major Faculty (being matters enumerated by the Chancellor). Fees payable on lodging Petition (rule 4(1)). 17 38

3 
Minor Faculty (all other cases). Fees payable on lodging Petition (rule 4(1)) 10 21

4 
Additional fee where the Judge has ordered under rule 6A that the proceedings are to be determined upon consideration of written representations, such fee, and by whom it is to be paid, to be fixed by the Judge within the limits shown 60—100 40—60

5 
On the Judge giving directions under rule 8 that an application for an Archdeacon’s Certificate is to be treated as a Petition for a Major Faculty, the applicant, if he wishes to proceed, shall pay a further fee of 17 25

6 
On the Judge giving directions under rule 8 that an application for an Archdeacon’s Certificate is to be treated as a Petition for a Minor Faculty, the applicant, if he wishes to proceed, shall pay a further fee of 10 8

7 
Additional fees where the issue, whether opposed or unopposed, whether interlocutory or final, is to be heard in Court or Chambers:—
(a) cases before the Chancellor’s Court or the Court of Arches or the Chancery Court of York:  

(i) if a case lasts half a day or less 120 57

(ii) if a case lasts a whole day or more than half 200 115

(b) cases before the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved  

(i) if a case lasts half a day or less — 50

(ii) if a case lasts a whole day or more than half — 100

 (fee on same scales for subsequent days)  

8 
Preparatory & ancillary work and correspondence (if any) not to exceed without the sanction of the Chancellor or the Presiding Judge of the Appellate Court. — 18
Notes:
(a) Any other fees of the Registry in opposed cases are to be paid on the same scale as are allowed for Court fees, from time to time, in the Supreme Court of Judicature.
(b) References to rules are references to The Faculty Jurisdiction Rules 1967 as amended by The Faculty Jurisdiction (Amendment) Rules 1987.
TABLE II

 Fee

1 
Fee payable to Provincial Registrar for permission under Overseas and Other Clergy (Ministry and Ordination) Measure 1967 £32

2 
Annual fee for Vicar-General of the Province of Canterbury £916

3 
Annual fee for Vicar-General of the Province of York £744
TABLE III

 Fee
 £

1 
Application under rule 3 to determine the Court to which appeals lies (except where application is made immediately after giving of judgement). To be paid to registrar by applicant on lodging application— 

 for chancellor 42

 for registrar 24

2 
Appeal under rule 4. To be paid to registrars by appellant on lodging notice of appeal— 

 to registrar of diocese 80

 to registrar of appellate court 40
Plus, where appeal is to Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved, a fee, to be fixed by registrar of Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved, in respect of the cost of preparing five copies for the use of the members of the Court of the documents to be transmitted by the registrar of the diocese under rule 4(5)(b), the notice of appeal and the documents to be furnished by the appellant under rule 4(7). To be paid to registrar of Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved by appellant when assessed by registrar.

3 
Petition for Review under rule 9. To be paid to registrar of Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved by petitioner on lodging petition. 80

4 
Interlocutory application under rule 11(2). To be paid to registrar of appellate court by applicant on lodging application. 10

5 
Appeal under rule 11(6). To be paid to registrar of appellate court by appellant on lodging notice of appeal. 10
Notes:
(a) References to rules are to the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction (Faculty Appeals) Rules 1965.
(b) The fees set out above are in addition to those set out in Table I.
TABLE IV
Fee for work by the diocesan registrar in connection with—
(a) any search in the register of patrons (“the register”) maintained under Part I of the Patronage (Benefices) Measure 1986 (rule 10(1));
(b) the making of any extract from the register (rule 10(1));
(c) supplying a certified copy of any entry in the register (rule 10(2));except so far as the work is within the scope of the annual fee payable to the diocesan registrar under the Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order for the time being in force made under section 5 of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986.

Fee payable to the diocesan registrar to be calculated in accordance with the Solicitors' Remuneration Order 1972 and to be payable by the person making the search or extract or requesting the certified copy.

References to rules are to The Patronage (Benefices) Rules 1987.