FEES
FACULTIES
Parochial Applications
The fees currently payable in respect of Faculty matters are set out in the Ecclesiastical Judges, Legal Officers and Others (Fees) Order 2009. (Please note that a mistake was made when this Order was printed. Under Part 1 of Table 1 of the Schedule, the fee payable to the Chancellor under paragraph 2 is stated to be £99.00, which was the rate under the 2008 fees order. The correct fee should be £102.00. In view of the cost of having the Order re-printed, the General Synod Office has asked all dioceses to work on the basis that the correct fee payable is £102.00.)
By special arrangement with the Peterborough Diocesan Board of Finance, the fee payable on lodging a Petition is not payable where the Petitioners are the Minister and/or Churchwardens or the Parochial Church Council.
Private Applications
In the case of a Petition from a private individual (for example, relating to the reservation of a grave space, or the erection of a memorial, or an exhumation), the current fee payable (from 1 January 2010) when lodging the Petition is £146.00. A cheque should be made payable to the Peterborough Diocesan Board of Finance and sent to the Diocesan Registry with the Petition.
On the granting of a Faculty to authorise the reservation of a grave space, in addition to the fee due on lodging the Petition, the Chancellor normally directs that the applicant pays fees of £40.00 to the Incumbent and £80.00 to the Parochial Church Council. Where a plot for the interment of cremated remains is reserved, the fees are reduced to £20.00 and £40.00 respectively. These fees should be paid direct, rather than sent to the Diocesan Registry. These additional fees and other fees payable in respect of private applications for Faculties are prescribed by a Fees Order made by the Chancellor on 15 June 2000.
Consistory Court Fees
When a Faculty application is contested, and the matter goes before the Consistory Court of the Diocese, additional fees will be paybale in respect of the court hearing and the preparation work. Please see Faculties.
PAROCHIAL FEES
Fees payable to clergy and Parochial Church Councils for Baptisms, Weddings, Funerals, Burials, Memorials and Searches of Records are set out in the Parochial Fees Order 2009, and in a separate Table of Parochial Fees prepared by the Church Commissioners.
MARRIAGE LICENCES
The fees payable for a Common Licence comprise a fee payable to the Surrogate (the person to whom the application is made) and fees payable to the Diocesan Registrar and to the Chancellor. The fees due to the Surrogate should be paid as directed by the Surrogate, and the fees due to the Registrar and the Chancellor should be paid in cash or by one cheque payable to Peterborough Diocesan Board of Finance.
The fee payable for a Special Licence (issued by the Faculty Office in Westminster on behalf of the Archbishop of Canterbury) is £140.00. Once the application has been approved, one of the parties will have to swear an affidavit (a formal statement) to confirm the information given. This can be done in front of an Anglican minister (to whom a fee of £5.00 will be payable) near to where the parties to the proposed marriage reside, or at the Faculty Office (when no extra fee is charged).