
1 
The fees appearing in the Schedule to this Order are established. The Tables of the Schedule contain particulars of the Annual Fees which are to be received, after the commencement of this Order, by the legal officers named in Table I of the Schedule (hereinafter referred to as “Table I”) in respect of the carrying out by them of the duties of their offices specified in the Appendix hereto (hereinafter referred to as “the Appendix”) and by the legal officers named in Table II of the Schedule in respect of the carrying out by them of the duties of their offices.
2 
The Fees established and set out in the second column of Table I of the Schedule are to be paid by the diocesan board of finance. The Fees established and set out in the third column of Table I and in Table II of the Schedule are the liability of the diocesan bishop or archbishop, subject to the provisions of section 8 of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986.
3 
The Fees established and set out in Tables I and II of the Schedule to the Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 1991 shall no longer be payable.
4 
The diocesan registrar shall perform the duties and provide the professional services set forth in the Appendix in consideration of the annual fee set out in Table I to this Order for his diocese and shall not be entitled to receive any other remuneration for such duties or services save as provided by this Order.
5 

(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 the annual fee payable under Table I.
(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) An 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.
6 
A fee specified in the Schedule to this Order may be increased by a sum for reasonable expenses of travel, subsistence and accommodation.
7 
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 the Appendix) there shall be payable in addition to that fee the amount of the Value Added Tax.
8 
This Order may be cited as the Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 1992 and shall come into operation on the first day of January 1993.
R. B. Gibson
A. K. L. Black
J. C. Broadhurst
+ Peter Crediton
D. Lovelock
Dated this 14th day of May 1992Approved by the General Synod
P. J. C. Mawer
Secretary-General
the 11th day of July 1992
APPENDIX
1 
Subject to the restrictions contained in paragraphs 2 and 3 hereof, the professional services provided by the diocesan registrar in respect of the annual fee paid to him under this Order shall include:—
A 
Giving of advice to the Diocesan Bishop, Suffragan Bishops, Archdeacons, Chairmen of the Houses of the Diocesan Synod, Rural Deans and Lay Chairmen of Deanery Synods, Incumbents and all other clergymen, beneficed or licensed in the diocese, on any legal matter properly arising in connection with the discharge of their respective ecclesiastical or synodical offices, and giving of advice to chairmen and secretaries of diocesan boards, councils and committees on any legal matter properly arising in connection with the business of the respective boards, councils and committees;
B 
Acting as Registrar to the Diocesan Synod and attendance at its meetings;
C 
Attendance at the Bishop’s Council and Standing Committee if required by that Committee;
D 
Occasional attendance at meetings of diocesan boards, councils and committees for the purpose of giving advice on specific matters;
E 
Maintaining of all such records of the diocese as are customarily kept by the diocesan registrar including the making of entries therein, and the making of searches and reports on matters recorded in the Registry or in documents held in the diocesan muniment room at the request of persons or bodies referred to in sub-paragraphs A and F hereof;
F 
Giving of advice to churchwardens and secretaries of PCCs on any legal matter properly arising in connection with their duties or official business;
G 
Giving of advice to any person concerned in or with the administration of an election under the Church Representation Rules on any question properly arising under those Rules;
H 
Giving of advice to a bona fide enquirer concerning the law of marriage, baptism, confirmation and burial of the dead according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England;
I 
Giving of advice to persons considering or proposing to make an application for a legal aid certificate for financial assistance from the ecclesiastical legal aid fund maintained under section 1 of the Church of England (Legal Aid and Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1988;
J 
Acting as Registrar to the Consistory Court of the diocese except in so far as a separate fee is prescribed by Order made under the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986 or except in so far as this Order provides that a fee calculated in accordance with the Solicitors' Remuneration Order 1972 is payable;
K 
Attendance at episcopal visitations;
L 
Drafting or preparing, approving, engrossing and registering of all notices, licenses, consents, permissions, instruments and other documents required by law or customarily used in connection with the following matters—
 Ordination
 Certification of Ordination
 Presentation to a Benefice
 Commission for Institution or Collation
 Admission to Freehold Office
 Certification of Institution or Collation
 Licensing of Non-Residence, for legalising house of residence
 Resignation (other than resignation of an incumbent)
 Under the Pastoral Measure 1983
 admission to office of rector for term of years
 licensing of vicar in a team ministry or for extending term of years of rector or vicar in a team ministry
 designation of a parish centre of worship under Part II of the Measure for the purposes of the Marriage Act 1949 and other purposes
 Licensing of clerks in holy orders and deaconesses
 Delegation by bishop of episcopal and archidiaconal powers under the Dioceses Measure 1978 and Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1983
 Episcopal visitations
 Matters relating to sequestrations
 Provision of agreements to form a Conventional District
 Consent to hold preferment under the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963
 Licensing of unconsecrated churches or places of worship (including temporary licences)
 Ordering of Licensed Chapel to come under Faculty Jurisdiction;
M 
Acting in relation to the following matters on the instructions of the Diocesan Bishop, Suffragan Bishops, Archdeacons or on the instructions of a diocesan board or council whose business properly includes such matters:
 Consecration of a Church and Burial Ground or a Church without a Burial Ground
 Consecration of a Cemetery or Burial Ground
 Preparation and Registration of documents required under the Consecration of Churchyards Act 1867 for the consecration of additions to churchyards
 Licensing of a Building for Marriages
 Notification under section 2 of the Benefices (Transfer of Rights of Patronage) Measure 1930 (in relation to a guild church in the City of London);
N 
Work in connection with the following matters:
 Maintaining the register of patrons (“the register”) under Part I of the Patronage (Benefices) Measure 1986 (“the the Measure”) as required by section 1(1) of the the Measure
 Searches in and making of extracts from the register, enquiries as to entries in the register and supplying certified copies of entries in the register, where the search, extract or enquiry is made or the certified copy is requested by or on behalf of a person or body referred to at the commencement of sub-paragraph M or by the designated officer (within the meaning of section 7(5) of the the Measure)
 Receipt and issue of notices and notification of representations under section 3(3) and (4) of the the Measure.
2 
The provisions of paragraph 1 hereof shall be restricted as follows:
(a) Where the Registrar receives a request for advice on any matter properly falling within paragraph 1 sub-paragraphs A, E, F, G and H—
(i) he shall not be required to correspond with a third party involved in the enquiry
(ii) before giving advice he shall first consider whether the matter on which his advice is sought is one which can conveniently be dealt with by the diocesan secretary or some other person or body in the diocese rather than by himself
(iii) if a legal dispute arises between parties who are both church officers he may decline to advise either party, but he shall be at liberty to advise both parties with a view to helping them to resolve their dispute if in his judgment it is desirable to do so;
(b) The Registrar shall not be required to attend meetings of diocesan boards, councils and committees except upon an occasional basis to give legal advice on specific matters. (He may attend such meetings regularly to give general advice and assistance if requested to do so by the board, council or committee in question and in that case he shall be entitled to be separately remunerated for this work.)
3 
The provisions of paragraph 2(a) hereof shall not apply to advice and assistance given as legal secretary or diocesan registrar to the Diocesan Bishop, or as diocesan registrar to Suffragan Bishops or Archdeacons.
4 
For the avoidance of doubt work in connection with the following matters shall not fall within the scope of the annual fee but a fee calculated in accordance with the Solicitors' Remuneration Order 1972 shall be payable—
(i) Conveyancing and drafting of documents other than those referred to in paragraph 1 sub-paragraphs L and M hereof;
(ii) Matters relating to individual diocesan, parochial or educational trusts or to individual pieces of diocesan glebe property;
(iii) Litigation;
(iv) Acting as secretary to the Vacancy in See Committee constituted under The Vacancy in See Committees Regulation 1977 on a vacancy in the See of the Diocesan Bishopric;
(v) Deposition or deprivation consequent upon proceedings in secular courts, including the following—
(a) Service of notice on priest or deacon of intention to depose him from Holy Orders under rule 49(1) of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction (Discipline) Rules 1963 (the fee is payable by the bishop)
(b) Carrying out of a duty or exercising of a discretion following proceedings referred to in section 55 of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963 (the fee is payable by the bishop);
(vi) Pronouncing of censure under section 31 of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963 with the consent of the accused (the fee is payable by the bishop);
(vii) Work undertaken on behalf of a person who is not an official in the diocese or on behalf of a body which is not a diocesan board or council in connection with the following matters—
 Consecration or licensing of a public cemetery, a private burial ground or a private chapel
 Licensing the chapel of an extra-parochial place for a marriage of persons living or residing within that place
 Notification under section 2 of the Benefices (Transfers of Rights of Patronage) Measure 1930 (in relation to a guild church in the City of London) (the fee to be paid in such proportions as may be agreed between the transferor and the transferee, and in the absence of such agreement the fee to be paid by the transferee);
(viii) Work carried out in relation to the register of patrons under Part I of the Patronage (Benefices) Measure 1986 where a fee calculated in accordance with the Solicitors' Remuneration Order 1972 is payable under the Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers (Fees) Order for the time being in force made under section 6 of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986
(ix) Acting as Chapter Clerk (whether or not the Diocesan Registrar holds the office of Chapter Clerk) and in particular doing the following work, namely work in connection with the following matters:—
 Installation to a Deanery
 Installation to a Canonry or Prebend (whether Residentiary or Honorary) or to an Archdeaconry
 Admission to a Minor Canonry
 (These fees are payble out of Capitular Revenues)
5 
If any disbursements other than expenses specified in paragraph 6 of this Order are incurred in the course of providing any of the professional services in paragraph 1 above the diocesan registrar shall be entitled to charge for them separately.
SCHEDULE

Table 1
Diocese Payable by Diocesan Board of Finance Liability of the Diocesan Bishop Total
Bath and Wells 18130 10648 28778
Birmingham 10794 8464 19258
Blackburn 12094 10745 22839
Bradford 7586 10007 17593
Bristol 10471 8208 18679
Canterbury 12420 9827 22247
Carlisle 13159 9094 22253
Chelmsford 19854 11605 31459
Chester 14192 9632 23824
Chichester 15863 11647 27510
Coventry 9736 9655 19391
Derby 12259 10039 22298
Durham 12435 10859 23294
Ely 13018 10156 23174
Exeter 18937 11070 30007
Gloucester 13775 9821 23596
Guildford 9231 9676 18907
Hereford 13716 10364 24080
Leicester 12859 8941 21800
Lichfield 18351 11638 29989
Lincoln 21749 8826 30575
Liverpool 11216 9925 21141
London 19205 12475 31680
Manchester 13489 11976 25465
Newcastle 11154 8007 19161
Norwich 22306 9206 31512
Oxford 26288 8590 34878
Peterborough 13433 11180 24613
Portsmouth 7197 10472 17669
Ripon 9971 8574 18545
Rochester 11368 9239 20607
St. Albans 14607 10697 25304
St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich 16682 10797 27479
Salisbury 18121 10273 28394
Sheffield 10381 8960 19341
Southwark 14222 12552 26774
Southwell 12075 10226 22301
Truro 11604 8554 20158
Wakefield 10141 9608 19749
Winchester 13708 10597 24305
Worcester 10125 8958 19083
York 18284 11276 29560

Table II
 Fee
 £

1 
Annual fee for Joint Registrars of the Province of Canterbury 38,280

2 
Annual fee for Registrar of the Province of York 16,800