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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-officers-annual-fees-order-1987/schedule-APPENDIX/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1296",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-officers-annual-fees-order-1987",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "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—\nA. 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;\nB. Giving of occasional advice to chairmen and secretaries of diocesan boards, councils and committees in connection with the business of the respective boards, councils and committees;\nC. Acting as Registrar to the Diocesan Synod and attendance at its meetings;\nD. Attendance at the Bishop’s Council and Standing Committee if required by that Committee;\nE. Occasional attendance at meetings of diocesan boards, councils and committees for the purpose of giving advice on specific matters;\nF. 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, B and G hereof;\nG. Giving of advice to churchwardens and secretaries of PCCs on any legal matter properly arising in connection with their duties or official business;\nH. 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;\nI. 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;\nJ. 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 constituted under section 59 of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963;\nK. 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;\nL. Attendance at episcopal and archidiaconal visitations;\nM. Drafting or preparing, approving, engrossing and registering of all notices, licences, consents, permissions, instruments and other documents required by law or customarily used in connection with the following matters—\nOrdination\nCertification of Ordination\nPresentation to a Benefice\nCommission for Institution or Collation\nAdmission to Freehold Office\nCertification of Institution or Collation\nProvision of Letters Dimissory or Letters of Request\nLicensing of Non-residence, for legalising house of residence\nResignation\nUnder the Pastoral Measure 1983\nadmission to office of rector for term of years\nlicensing of vicar in a team ministry or for extending term of years of rector or vicar in a team ministry\nissuing of notices relating to suspension or restriction under Part IV of the Measure\ndesignation of a parish centre of worship under Part II of the Measure for the purposes of the Marriage Act 1949 and other purposes\nIssuing of permissions to officiate to and licensing of clerks in holy orders\nAppointment of Rural Dean\nDelegation by bishop of episcopal and archidiaconal powers under the Dioceses Measure 1978 and Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1983\nEpiscopal and archidiaconal visitations\nAppointment of sequestrators and matters relating to sequestrations\nProvision of agreements to form a Conventional District\nConsent to hold preferment under the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963\nLicensing of unconsecrated churches or places of worship (including temporary licences)\nOrdering of Licensed Chapel to come under Faculty Jurisdiction\nIssuing of permissions to officiate to and licensing of deaconesses, lay workers and readers\nUnder the Parochial Registers and Records Measure 1978 authorisation to retain any register book or record in parochial custody;\nN. 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—\nConsecration of a Church and Burial Ground or a Church without a Burial Ground\nConsecration of a Cemetery or Burial Ground\nPreparation and Registration of documents required under the Consecration of Churchyards Act 1867 for consecration of additions to churchyards\nLicensing of a Building for Marriages, including settling the area to which the licence should apply\nNotification under section 2 of the Benefices (Transfer of Rights of Patronage) Measure 1930\nIssuing of notices under the Benefices (Exercise of Rights of Patronage) Measure 1931 (including instances where body of advisers is consulted).",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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