This Order may be cited as the Parochial Fees Order 2008 and shall come into operation on the first day of January 2009.

In this Order “the Measure” means the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986.

The Table of Parochial Fees set out in Part 1 of the Schedule is established and contains particulars of the parochial fees which, subject to the provisions of section 3 of the Measure, are to be payable to the persons named in relation to the respective matters specified.

Part 2 of the Schedule shall apply in relation to the parochial fees particulars of which are contained in Part 1.

In the Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires—

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

“Chancellor” means the judge of the consistory court 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;

“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 a headstone, cross, kerb, border, vase, chain, railing, tablet, plaque, marker, flatstone, tombstone or monument or tomb of any other kind.

The Parochial Fees Order 2007 is revoked.

The draft of this Order was approved by the General Synod on 6th July 2008

David Williams

Clerk to the Synod

Church House, London

The COMMON SEAL of the Archbishops' Council was hereunto affixed on

18th September 2008

William Fittall

Secretary General

Church House, London

Paragraph 2 and Part 1 of the Schedule establish a new table for 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 the fees prescribed by the Parochial Fees Order 2007 (SI 2007/2850).