{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parochial-fees-order-1988/schedule/part-II/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parochial-fees-order-1988/schedule/part-II/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1327",
  "legislation_title": "Parochial Fees Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parochial-fees-order-1988",
  "path": "schedule/part/II/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Clerks and Sextons",
  "text": "In certain parishes there will still be a person who\n(i) was employed in a parish immediately before 1st January 1977 (the date on which the Parochial Fees Order 1976 came into operation) as a parish clerk or sexton; or\n(ii) under the terms of his or her employment carried out the duties of a clerk or sexton and was entitled to fees payable for such duties.\nThat person is, in relation to that parish, entitled to be paid the sum specified in column 4 for performing a clerk’s duties or that in column 5 for performing a sexton’s duties; and the sum shown in column 2 as payable to the parochial church council shall be reduced accordingly.\nWhere there is no person entitled as above to the sum specified in column 4 or column 5 (or either of them) such sum or sums are payable to the incumbent, if he was incumbent of the parish immediately before 1st January 1977; and the sum shown in column 2 as payable to the parochial church council shall be reduced accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1976/1112."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1327/schedule/part/II/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:02:00.822865+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."
}