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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-judges-and-legal-officers-fees-order-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1273",
  "legislation_title": "Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers (Fees) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-judges-and-legal-officers-fees-order-1988",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\n1 This Order increases the fees fixed by the Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers (Fees) Order 1987. It also fixes fees for cases where the chancellor orders a petition for a faculty to be disposed of on written representations, without an oral hearing, under the new procedure introduced by The Faculty Jurisdiction (Amendment) Rules 1987.\n2 The practice of most of the Chancellors in exercising their jurisdiction in relation to item 2 of Table I has been to designate the following as matters for major faculties—\n1. Where estimated cost of work, excluding professional fees and VAT exceeds £2,500.\n2. Where confirmatory faculty is sought.\n3. Where grave space is reserved.\n4. Where body is to be exhumed.\n5. Where light or air agreement is to be approved.\n6. Where faculty is sought under Open Spaces Act 1906.\n7. Where road widening scheme is approved.\n8. Where Chancellor so directs in case of unusual difficulty.\n3 The Order also—\n(a) replaces with a new table of fees the parts of Table III of the Schedule to The Legal Officers Fees Order 1975 which have not already been repealed; and\n(b) provides for fees for certain duties of diocesan registrars under the Patronage (Benefices) Measure 1986.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1273/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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