Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986

6 Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers (Fees) Orders.E

(1)The Fees Advisory Commission may make recommendations as to the fees to be paid in respect of such duties performed by ecclesiastical judges and legal officers as are specified by the Commission (not, in the case of legal officers, being duties covered by the annual fees payable under a Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order), and the Commission may make an order (to be known as an ”Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers (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, whether with or without amendment.

(4)Where the Standing Committee of the General Synod determines that an Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers (Fees) Order does not need to be debated by the General Synod, then, unless—

(a)notice is given by a member of the General Synod in accordance with its Standing Orders that he wishes the order to be debated, or

(b)notice is so given by any such member that he wishes to move an amendment to the order and at least twenty-five other members of the Synod indicate when the amendment is called that they wish the amendment to be moved,

the order shall for the purposes of subsection (3) above be deemed to have been approved by the General Synod without amendment.

(5)The M1Statutory Instruments Act 1946 shall apply to an Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers (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.