Part IIE

Ecclesiastical Judges’ and Legal Officers’ FeesE

5 Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Orders.E

(1)The Fees Advisory Commission may make recommendations as to the annual fees to be paid to legal officers in respect of such of the duties of their office as are specified by the Commission, and the Commission may make an order (to be known as a “Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order”) to give effect to their recommendations.

(2)Any order made under subsection (1) above may contain such incidental provisions as the Fees Advisory Commission considers necessary or desirable.

(3)Any order made under subsection (1) above shall be laid before the General Synod and shall not come into force until it has been approved by the General Synod.

(4)Where the Standing Committee of the General Synod determines that a Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order does not need to be debated by the General Synod, then, unless notice is given by a member of the General Synod in accordance with its Standing Orders that he wishes the order to be debated, the order shall for the purposes of subsection (3) above be deemed to have been approved by the General Synod.

(5)The M1Statutory Instruments Act 1946 shall apply to a Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order approved by the General Synod as if it were a statutory instrument and were made when so approved and as if this Measure were an Act providing that any such order shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.