Civil List Act 1936
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1936 c. 15 |
Civil List Act, 1936
(26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8) CHAPTER 15.
An Act to make provision for the honour and dignity of the Crown and the Royal Family, and for the payment of certain salaries, allowances and pensions; to enable His Majesty to assent to arrangements on behalf of any son of His Majesty being Duke of Cornwall for the payment of certain sums out of the revenues of the Duchy during the minority of the said Duke; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[21st May 1936]
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, that Your Majesty desired that the contingency of Your Majesty's marriage should be taken into account, so that in that event there should be provision for Her Majesty the Queen, and for Members of Your Majesty's Family corresponding to the provision which the House of Commons have been willing to make in like circumstances in the past, and that your Majesty also desired that suitable provision should be made for His Royal Highness the Duke of York as the Heir Presumptive, and, in certain events, for His Royal Highness's family:
And whereas Your Majesty has further been graciously pleased to signify Your Majesty's intention, so long as the Duchy of Cornwall is vested in Your Majesty, to make the said provision for His Royal Highness the Duke of York, and, in so far as the revenues of the Duchy may be sufficient for the purpose, to provide 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 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 the Exchequer.
1. The hereditary revenues which were by section one of the Civil List Act, 1910, directed 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 ten thousand pounds:
Provided that the rate of payment shall be reduced—
3 Provision for the Queen in the event of His Majesty marrying, and for His Majesty's family.
(1) If His Majesty should marry, the following provisions of this section shall have effect.
(2) There shall be paid to Her Majesty the Queen during her life, in the event of Her Majesty surviving His Majesty, the yearly sum of seventy thousand pounds.
(3) There shall be paid to the trustees hereinafter mentioned as a provision for the benefit of His Majesty's children (other than the Duke of Cornwall for the time being) the yearly 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 yearly sum of fifteen thousand pounds in respect of each such son who marries, and a yearly sum of six thousand pounds in respect of each daughter who attains the age of twenty-one years or marries:
Provided that the sum payable in respect of any such son or daughter shall cease to be paid in the event of the death of that son or daughter.
(4) The trustees shall hold the sums paid to them under this section in trust for all or any one or more of the children of His Majesty (other than the Duke of Cornwall for the time being), in such shares, at such times, in such manner and subject to such conditions and powers of revocation (including, if it is thought fit, a condition against alienation), as His present Majesty may by order, countersigned by the First Commissioner of His Majesty's Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, appoint:
Provided that any such appointment may be varied by another order made and countersigned in like manner.
4 Provision for His Royal Highness the Duke of York and his family.
(1) There shall be paid to His Royal Highness the Duke of York during his life the yearly sum of twenty-five thousand pounds:
Provided that in respect of any period during which the Duchy of Cornwall is vested in His Majesty, and any period during which the Duke of Cornwall for the time being is a minor, no payment shall be made unless the net revenues of the Duchy for the year fall short, as respects the first period, of twenty-five thousand pounds and, as respects the second period, of fifty thousand pounds, and in the event of such a deficiency the rate of the payment shall not exceed an amount per annum equal to the deficiency.
(2) In the event of His Royal Highness the Duke of York predeceasing His Majesty, there shall be paid to the trustees hereinafter mentioned as a provision for the benefit of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York and the children of Their Royal Highnesses, in respect of any period during which one of the children of Their Royal Highnesses is the Heir Presumptive to the Throne, the yearly sum of twenty-five thousand pounds.
(3) The...
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