{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-officers-annual-fees-order-1987/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-officers-annual-fees-order-1987/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1296",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-officers-annual-fees-order-1987",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(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.\n(b) Such supplementary annual fee may be agreed in respect of services not falling within the scope of the services covered by the annual fee payable to the diocesan registrar and defined in the Appendix.\n(c) An agreement made under sub-paragraph (a) above shall be expressed to be a payment by way of supplementary annual fee.\n(d) 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.\n(e) The body responsible for paying a supplementary annual fee shall be the diocesan board of finance.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1296/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:23:08.725315+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}