Section 1 Remuneration of occasional ecclesiastical duties performed in vacant benefices.

The bishop of every diocese shall . . . F1have power . . . to determine the amount of the remuneration to be paid F2for the performance of occasional ecclesiastical duties in any benefice during a vacancy therein and, where any such duty is performed by a person other than a clerk in Holy Orders, the person to whom the remuneration is to be paid.

A determination by the bishop under this section shall be binding on and shall be given effect to by the sequestrators.

The power conferred by this section shall authorise the bishop both to fix a general scale of remuneration to be applied in the absence of any special determination by him of the remuneration to be paid in a particular case and also to make such a special determination if, in his opinion, circumstances so require.