Civil List Act 1972
| Year | 1972 |
Civil List Act 1972
1972 CHAPTER 7
An Act to make further provision for the honour and dignity of the Crown and the Royal Family, and for the payment of certain allowances and pensions.
[24th February 1972]
Most Gracious Sovereign,
Whereas Your Majesty has been graciously pleased to signify to Your faithful Commons in Parliament assembled that Your Majesty is desirous that consideration should be given to the provision for Your Majesty's Civil List made by Parliament in the first year of Your Majesty's reign, the provision then made for His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh and other members of Your Family, and the provision made in the first year of Your Majesty's father's reign for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and for His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester; and that provision should be now made for Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester and any future wife of a younger son of Your Majesty in the event of any of them surviving her husband:
And Whereas Your Majesty has further been graciously pleased to signify that Your Majesty is content to forgo the provision made by Parliament for Your Majesty's Privy Purse:
Now, therefore, we, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled, have freely and voluntarily resolved to make such provision as hereinafter appears for the purposes aforesaid, and we do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Annual payment for the Queen's Civil List.
(1) There shall, during the present reign and a period of six months afterwards, be paid for the Queen's Civil List the yearly sum of 980,000.
(2) The said yearly sum may be increased in accordance with the following provisions of this Act.
(3) The yearly sum payable for the Queen's Civil List shall be appropriated to the services and purposes set out below, that is—
Salaries and expenses of Her Majesty's Household, and royal bounty, alms and special services;
and expenditure for those services and purposes is in this Act referred to as ‘Civil List expenditure’.
(4) If, as respects any calendar year, the sum payable for the Queen's Civil List exceeds the audited Civil List expenditure, an amount equal to the excess shall be paid to the Royal Trustees out of the appropriation to Civil List expenditure, to be accumulated by them and applied in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(5) If, before the Civil List expenditure for any year has been audited, it appears to the Treasury that a payment will fall to be made under subsection (4) of this section for the year, the Treasury may make a payment before the audit, and such adjustment shall be made after the audit as may in the circumstances of the case appear to the Treasury to be required.
(6) If, as respects any calendar year, the sum payable for the Queen's Civil List is less than the audited Civil List expenditure, the Royal Trustees shall make good the deficiency by applying money available by virtue of subsections (4) and (5) of this section, or by virtue of section 3(4) of this Act.
(7) The Royal Trustees may at the request of the Treasury make out of money so available advances towards meeting Civil List expenditure before that expenditure has been audited, and where advances have been so made such adjustment shall be made after the audit as may in the circumstances of the case appear to the Treasury to be required.
(8) Any money so available which is not applied in accordance with this section shall be dealt with after the end of the present reign in such manner as Parliament may hereafter determine.
(9) In subsections (2) and (3) of section 2 of the Civil List Act 1952 (reductions in payments for the Queen's Civil List in any period during which the Duke of Cornwall for the time being is a minor, or during which the Duchy of Cornwall is vested in Her Majesty) for references to the sum payable under subsection (1) of that section there shall be substituted references to the sum payable for the Queen's Civil List under this Act.
2 Further provision for members of the Royal Family.
(1) In section 3 of the Civil List Act 1937 (provision for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) for the words ‘seventy thousand pounds’ there shall be substituted the words ‘95,000’.
(2) In section 4(2) of the Civil List Act 1937 (provision for His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester) for the words ‘ten thousand pounds’ there shall be substituted the words ‘20,000’.
(3) In section 3 of the Civil List Act 1952 (provision for His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh) for the words ‘forty thousand pounds’ there shall be substituted the words ‘65,000’.
(4) In section 4(1) of the Civil List Act 1952 (provision for Her Majesty's younger children)—
(a ) for the words ‘ten thousand pounds’ and ‘six thousand pounds’ (yearly sums for a younger son, or for a daughter) there shall be substituted the words ‘20,000’ and ‘15,000’ respectively, and
(b ) for the words ‘fifteen thousand pounds’ and ‘nine thousand pounds’ (additional yearly amounts in respect of a son or daughter who marries) there shall be substituted the words ‘30,000’ and ‘20,000’ respectively.
(5) In section 5(1) of the Civil List Act 1952 (provision for Her Royal Highness the Princess Margaret) for the words ‘nine thousand pounds’ there shall be substituted the words ‘29,000’.
(6) In section 6 of the Civil List Act 1952 (provision for widow of the Duke of Cornwall) for the words ‘thirty thousand pounds’ there shall be substituted the words ‘60,000.’
(7) In the event of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester surviving His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, there shall be paid to her during her life the yearly sum of 20,000.
(8) In the event of a son of Her present Majesty, other than the Duke of Cornwall for the time being, dying leaving a widow, there shall be paid to her during her life the yearly sum of 20,000.
(9) The yearly sums mentioned in sections 3 and 4(2) of the Civil List Act 1937, and in sections 3 to 6 of the Civil List Act 1952, as amended by this section, and the yearly sums mentioned in subsections (7) and (8) above, may be increased in accordance with...
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