Civil List Act 1910
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1910 c. 28 |
| Year | 1910 |
Civil List Act, 1910
(10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 28.
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.
[3rd August 1910]
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 that competent provision should be made for Her Majesty the Queen in the event of Her surviving Your Majesty, and, in the event of the marriage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, for Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, and that similar provision should be made for Your Majesty's younger children in the event of their respectively attaining their majority or marrying:
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 one of the Civil List Act, 1901, directed to be carried to and made part of the Consolidated Fund (including the Osborne Estate to which that section was subsequently applied by the Osborne Estate Act, 1902) 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 the Queen in the event of her surviving the King.
3. In the event of Her Majesty Queen Mary surviving His Majesty the King, there shall be paid to her during her life an annuity of seventy thousand pounds.
4 Provision for the Princess of Wales in the event of the marriage of the Prince of Wales.
(1) In the event of the marriage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, there shall be paid to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales during the continuance of her marriage with His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales for her sole and separate use, but without any power of anticipation, an annuity of ten thousand pounds.
(2) In the event of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales surviving His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, there shall be paid to Her Royal Highness during, her life an annuity of thirty thousand pounds.
5 Provision for His Majesty's younger children.
(1) There shall be paid to the trustees herein-after mentioned as a provision for the benefit of His Majesty's children (other than the Duke of Cornwall for the time being) an annual sum of ten thousand pounds in respect of each son (other than the Duke of Cornwall for the time being) who attains the age of twenty-one years, and a further annual sum of...
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