Ecclesiastical Law, England Citation and commencement 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 2011. 2 This Order shall come into operation on the first day of January 2012. Establishment of fees 2 The fees appearing in Schedule 1 to this Order are established. The Tables of that Schedule contain particulars of the annual fees which are to be received, after the commencement of this Order, by— 1 the legal officers named in Table I of that Schedule in respect of the carrying out by them of the duties of their offices specified in Schedule 2 to this Order; and 2 by the legal officers named in Part A of Table II of Schedule 1 in respect of the carrying out by them of the duties of their offices except the duties and professional services specified in Part B of Table II as not falling within the scope of the annual fee. Payment of fees 3 The fees established and set out in the second column of Table I of Schedule 1 to this Order are to be paid by the diocesan board of finance. The fees established and set out in the third column of the said Table I and in Table II of that Schedule are the liability of the diocesan bishop or archbishop, subject to the provisions of section 8 of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986. Revocation of 2010 Order 4 The Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 2010 is hereby revoked. Duties of the diocesan registrar 5 The diocesan registrar shall perform the duties and provide the professional services specified in Schedule 2 to this Order in consideration of the annual fee set out in Table I of Schedule 1 to this Order for his or her diocese and shall not be entitled to receive any other remuneration for such duties or services save as provided by this Order. Supplementary annual fee 6 1 Subject to the provisions of this article nothing in this Order shall preclude a diocesan board of finance from agreeing to pay an additional fee to a diocesan registrar by way of annual fee or retainer (hereinafter called a “supplementary annual fee”) which is in addition to the annual fee payable under Table I of Schedule 1 to this Order. 2 An agreement made under paragraph (1) above shall be expressed to be an agreement for a payment by way of supplementary annual fee. 3 An agreement made under paragraph (1) above shall be in writing. The period for which the agreement is to run shall be stated in the agreement. In the absence of any such statement the agreement shall remain binding until determined by not less that three months’ notice on either side. 4 The body responsible for paying a supplementary annual fee shall be the diocesan board of finance. Travel, subsistence and accommodation 7 A fee specified in Schedule 1 to this Order shall be increased by a sum for reasonable expenses of travel, subsistence and accommodation. Value Added Tax 8 Where Value Added Tax is chargeable in respect of the provision of any service for which a fee is prescribed in this Order (including any fee specified in paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to this Order) there shall be payable in addition to that fee the amount of Value Added Tax. A Rutherford G F Tattersall A R Hargreaves-Smith A Britton T E H Walker T E Allen C. J. Podmore Clerk to the Synod Church House, London 8th July 2011