Section 10.
SCHEDULE 6Amendment of Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986
1The [1986 No. 2.] Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986 shall be amended as follows.
2In section 5 (Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Orders)—
(a)in subsection (1)—
(i)after the words “paid to” there shall be inserted the words “ecclesiastical judges and”;
(ii)the words “(to be known as a “Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order”)” shall be omitted;
(b)in subsection (2) at the end there shall be inserted the words “, including provision for payments in respect of reasonable expenses incurred by ecclesiastical judges and legal officers on travel, subsistence, accommodation and the holding of court hearings”;
(c)in subsections (4) and (5) for the words “a Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order” in both places where they occur there shall be substituted the words “an order made under subsection (1) above”.
3In section 6 (Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers (Fees) Orders)—
(a)in subsection (1) for the words from “(not, in the case of legal officers” to the end there shall be substituted the words “to such persons as are so specified, and the Commission may make an order to give effect to their recommendations”;
(b)in subsection (2) at the end there shall be inserted the words “, including provision for payments to be made in respect of reasonable expenses incurred by ecclesiastical judges and legal officers on travel, subsistence, accommodation and the holding of court hearings”.
4In section 10 (interpretation)—
(a)in the definition of “ecclesiastical judges” at the end there shall be inserted the words “, and the deputies of any of them”;
(b)in the definition of “legal officers” at the end there shall be inserted the words “, and the deputy provincial and diocesan registrars”.