Civil List Act 1952
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1952 c. 37 |
| Year | 1952 |
Civil List Act , 1952
(15 & 16 Geo. 6 & 1 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 37
An Act to make provision for the honour and dignity of the Crown and the Royal Family, as to the disposal in certain circumstances of revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall, and for the payment of certain allowances and pensions.
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 provision should be made for His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh and for Your Majesty's children other than His Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall, and that provision should be made for Her Royal Highness the Princess Margaret in the event of her marrying and for any future wife of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall in the event of her surviving his Royal Highness:
And whereas Your Majesty has further been graciously pleased to signify Your Majesty's intention to assent to arrangements for applying, during the minority of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall, a part of the revenues of the Duchy in relief of the charge for Your Majesty's Civil List, and, in the event of those revenues vesting in Your Majesty, to provide for Your Majesty's Civil List out of those revenues in so far as they are sufficient:
And whereas it is expedient, forasmuch as it is happily to be expected that Your Majesty's reign will last for many years, to make provision under which so much of the sum charged for Your Majesty's Civil List as is not required for current expenditure will be set aside and accumulated in the hands of trustees so as to be applicable for meeting expenditure in later years, and it is expedient to reserve for the future determination of Parliament to what extent and by what means sums remaining in the hands of the trustees at the end of Your Majesty's reign should be available for making provision for members of Your Majesty's family other than those for whom provision is made by this Act corresponding to that which Your Predecessors have been accustomed to make out of savings accruing to the Sovereign'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 Payment of hereditary revenues to the Exchequer.
1. The hereditary revenues which were by section one of the Civil List Act, 1937, 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 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 four hundred and seventy-five thousand pounds.
(2) In respect of any period during which the Duke of Cornwall for the time being is a minor, the sum payable under the preceding subsection shall be subject to a reduction of an amount equal to the net revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall for the year, less—
(a ) for each year whilst he is under the age of eighteen years, one equal ninth part of those revenues,
(b ) for each of the last three years of his minority, thirty thousand pounds,
and the net revenues of the Duchy up to the amount of the reduction to which the said sum is subject by virtue of this subsection shall be at the disposal of Her Majesty.
(3) In respect of any period during which the Duchy of Cornwall is vested in Her Majesty, the sum payable under subsection (1) of this section shall be subject to a reduction of an amount equal to the net revenues of the Duchy for the year.
3 Provision for His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh.
3. There shall be paid to His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh during his life the yearly sum of forty thousand pounds.
4 Provision for Her Majesty's younger children.
(1) There shall be paid to the trustees hereinafter mentioned as a provision for the benefit of the children of Her present Majesty, other than the Duke of Cornwall for the time being, yearly sums of the following amounts, that is to say—
(a ) in respect of each such child who either attains the age of twenty-one years or marries, ten thousand pounds in the case of a son and six thousand pounds in the case of a daughter, and further
(b ) in respect of each such child who marries, fifteen thousand pounds in the case of a son and nine thousand pounds in the case of a daughter,
to commence from the date of his or her attaining that age or marrying (whichever is the earlier) in the case of a sum falling within paragraph (a ), and from the date of his or her marrying in the case of a sum falling within paragraph (b ):
Provided that the sum payable in respect of any such son or daughter shall cease to be paid on 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 Her present 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 Her present Majesty may by order, countersigned by the First Commissioner of Her 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.
5 Provision for Her Royal Highness the Princess Margaret in the event of her marriage.
(1) In the event of the marriage of Her Royal Highness the Princess Margaret there shall be paid to Her Royal Highness during her life the yearly sum of nine thousand pounds, to commence from the date of her marrying.
(2) Any sum payable to Her Royal Highness the Princess Margaret under this section shall be in addition to any sum payable to Her Royal Highness by virtue of the provisions of section six of the Civil List Act, 1937.
6 Provision for widow of the Duke of Cornwall.
6. In the event of the death during the present reign of the Duke of Cornwall for the time being leaving a widow, there shall be paid to her during her life the yearly sum of thirty thousand pounds, to commence from the date of his death.
7 Payments by Treasury in respect of retired allowances.
(1) The Treasury may undertake the payment of any retired allowances granted, on scales and in accordance with conditions approved from time to time by the Treasury, by Her Majesty to or in respect of persons who have been members of the Royal Household.
(2) The Treasury may also undertake the payment of such as they may determine of any retired allowances granted by His late Majesty otherwise than as mentioned in section eleven of the Civil List Act, 1937, to or in respect of persons who have been members of the Royal...
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