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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-officers-annual-fees-order-1987/schedule-APPENDIX/paragraph-4",
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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",
  "path": "schedule/APPENDIX/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the avoidance of doubt work in connection with the following matters shall not fall within the scope of the annual fee but a fee calculated in accordance with the Solicitors' Remuneration Order 1972 shall be payable—\n(a) Conveyancing and drafting of documents other than those referred to in paragraph 1 sub-paragraphs M and N hereof;\n(b) Matters relating to individual diocesan, parochial or educational trusts or to individual pieces of diocesan glebe property;\n(c) Litigation;\n(d) Acting as secretary to the Vacancy in See Committee constituted under The Vacancy in See Committees Regulation 1977 on a vacancy in the see of the diocesan bishopric;\n(e) Investigation of Title in case of change of patronage since the last presentation (the fee is payable by the patron);\n(f) Deposition or deprivation consequent upon proceedings in secular courts, including the following—\n(i) Service of notice on priest or deacon of intention to depose him from Holy Orders under rule 49(1) of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction (Discipline) Rules 1963 (the fee is payable by the bishop);\n(ii) Carrying out of a duty or exercising of a discretion following proceedings referred to in section 55 of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963 (the fee is payable by the bishop);\n(g) Work undertaken on behalf of a person who is not an official in the diocese or on behalf of a body which is not a diocesan board or council in connection with the following matters—\nConsecration or licensing of a public cemetery, a private burial ground or a private chapel\nLicensing the chapel of an extra-parochial place for the marriage of persons living or residing within that place\nNotification under section 2 of the Benefices (Transfer of Rights of Patronage) Measure 1930 (the fee to be paid in such proportions as may be agreed between the transferor and the transferee, and in the absence of such agreement the fee to be paid by the transferee);\n(h) Acting as Chapter Clerk (whether or not the Diocesan Registrar holds the office of Chapter Clerk) and in particular doing the following work, namely work in connection with the following matters—\nInstallation to a Deanery\nInstallation to a Canonry or Prebend (whether Residentiary or Honorary) or to an Archdeaconry\nAdmission to a Minor Canonry.\n(These fees are payable out of Capitular Revenues)",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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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