Civil List Act 1937
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1937 c. 32 |
| Year | 1937 |
Civil List Act, 1937
(1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 32.
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; 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.
[10th June 1937]
Most Gracious Sovereign ,
Whereas 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 for Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth and His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, and that provision should be made for Your Majesty's children, other than Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth, corresponding to the provision which the House of Commons have been willing to make in like circumstances in the past:
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 Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth and for His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, and, in so far as the revenues of the Duchy may be sufficient for the purpose, to provide for Your Majesty's Civil List:
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 revenue to the Exchequer.
1. The hereditary revenues which were by section one of the Civil List Act, 1936, 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 the King's 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.
3 Provision for Her Majesty the Queen in the event of her surviving His Majesty.
3. In the event of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth surviving His Majesty, there shall be paid to her during her life the yearly sum of seventy thousand pounds.
4 Provision for Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth and for His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester.
(1) There shall be paid to Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth during her life the yearly sum of six thousand pounds and, when Her Royal Highness attains the age of twenty-one years, unless there is at that time a Duke of Cornwall living, the additional yearly sum of nine thousand pounds.
(2) There shall be paid to His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester during his life the yearly sum of ten thousand pounds.
(3) The yearly sum to be paid to His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester under this section shall be in addition to any sum payable to His Royal Highness by virtue of the provisions of section five of the Civil List Act, 1910.
(4) The yearly sum to be paid to Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth under this section shall, until Her Royal Highness attains the age of twenty-one years, be paid to His Majesty as guardian of Her Royal Highness, and shall be applied by His Majesty for the maintenance and education of Her Royal Highness in such manner as His Majesty may think fit.
5 Payments for the King's Civil List and for Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Gloucester to be reduced during certain periods.
(1) No payment shall be made under the foregoing provisions of this Act to Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Gloucester in respect of any period during which the Duchy of Cornwall is vested in His Majesty or any period during which the Duke of Cornwall for the time being is a minor, unless the net revenues of the Duchy for the year fall short, as respects the first period, of the total payments which would, but for this subsection, be required to be so made to Their Royal Highnesses for that year, and as respects the second period, of the said sums with the addition of twenty-five thousand pounds, and in the event of such a deficiency the payment to be so made to His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester shall not exceed the amount of the deficiency, and the payment to be so made to Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth shall not exceed the amount of the deficiency less the amount of the payment, if any, so made to His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester.
(2) The sum payable under the foregoing provisions of this Act for the King's Civil List shall be subject, in respect of any period during which the Duchy of Cornwall is vested in His Majesty, to a reduction of an amount equal to the net revenues of the Duchy for the year less the sums, if any, which would, but for the last preceding subsection, be payable under the foregoing provisions of this Act to Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Gloucester.
6 Provision for His Majesty's younger children.
(1) There shall be paid to the trustees hereinafter mentioned as a provision for the benefit of His Majesty's children, other than Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Cornwall for the time being, a 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, other than Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth, 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.
(2) The trustees shall hold the yearly sums paid to them under this section in trust for all or any one or more of the children of His Majesty, other than Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth and 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...
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