Civil List Act 1901
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1901 c. 4 |
| Year | 1901 |
Civil List Act, 1901
(1 Edw. 7.) CHAPTER 4.
An Act to make provision for the honour and dignity of the Crown and the Royal Family, and for the payment of certain allowances and pensions.
[2nd July 1901]
Most Gracious Sovereign,
W HEREAS Your Majesty has been graciously pleased to signify to your faithful Commons in Parliament assembled that Your Majesty placed unreservedly at their disposal those hereditary revenues which were so placed by Your predecessor, and that Your Majesty is desirous of making competent provision for the honourable support and maintenance of Your Majesty's Son, the Duke of Cornwall and York, Your Daughter-in-law, the Duchess of Cornwall and York, and Your Daughters, the Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife, the Princess Victoria, and Princess Charles of Denmark, and that Your Majesty is further desirous that similar provision should be made for Her Majesty the Queen in the event of Her surviving Your Majesty, and for the Duchess of Cornwall and York in the event of Her surviving the Duke of Cornwall and York:
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 herein-after appears for the purposes aforesaid, and we do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King'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 Payment of hereditary revenues to Exchequer.
1. The hereditary revenues which were by section two of the Civil List Act, 1837directed to be carried to and made part of the Consolidated Fund shall, during the present reign and a period of six months afterwards, be paid into the Exchequer, and be made part of the Consolidated Fund.
2 Annual payment for Civil List.
2. There shall, during the present reign and a period of six months afterwards, be paid for the King's Civil List, the yearly sum of four hundred and seventy thousand pounds.
3 Provision for Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York.
(1)3.—(1.) There shall be paid to His Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall and York during the joint lives of His present Majesty and of His said Royal Highness an annuity of twenty thousand pounds.
(2) (2.) There shall be paid to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall and York during the continuance of her marriage with His Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall and York, for her sole and separate use, but without any power of anticipation, an annuity of ten thousand pounds.
(3) (3.) In the event of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall and York surviving His Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall and York, there shall be paid to her during her life an annuity of thirty thousand pounds.
4 Provision for His Majesty's daughters.
(1)4.—(1.) There shall be paid to the trustees herein-after mentioned as a provision for the benefit of His Majesty's daughters the annual sum of eighteen thousand pounds during their joint lives, to be reduced on the death of each of the said Princesses by six thousand pounds.
(2) (2.) The persons who are for the time being the First Commissioner of His Majesty's Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Keeper of His Majesty's Privy Purse shall be the Princesses' trustees, and shall be a body corporate by that name, and any act of the trustees may be signified under the hands and seals of the persons who are the trustees for the time being.
(3) (3.) The trustees shall hold the annual sum paid...
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