Civil List Audit Act 1816

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1816 c. 46
Year1816
Anno Regni GEORGII III. Britanniarum Regis,Quinquagesimo Sexto. An Act for the better Regulation of the Civil List.

(56 Geo. 3) C A P. XLVI.

[20th June 1816]

' WHEREASan Act passed in the Twenty second Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituledAn Act for enabling His Majesty to discharge the Debt contracted upon His Civil List Revenues, and for preventing the same from being in Arrear for the future, by regulating the Mode of Payments out of the said Revenues; and by suppressing or regulating certain Offices therein mentioned, which are now paid out of the Revenuesof the Civil List: And Whereas an Act passed in the Twenty third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for establishing certain Regulations in the Receipt of the Exchequer: And Whereasan Act passed in the Twenty fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituledAn Act to authorize the Lord Steward of the Household, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Master of the Robes, and the Lords of the Treasury, respectively, to pay Bounties granted by His Majesty to Persons in low and indigent Circumstances: And Whereas an Act passed in the Forty fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for the better Support of His Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of the United Kingdom, and for preventing Accumulation of Arrears in the Payments out of the CivilList Revenues: And Whereas an Act passed in the Fifty second Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for granting to His Majesty a certain Sum for defraying the Expences incident to the Assumption of the Personal Exercise of the Royal Authority by His Royal Highness The Prince Regent,in the Name and on the Behalf of His Majesty: And Whereas another Act passed in the Fifth second Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for the Regulation of His Majesty's Household, and for enabling Her Majesty the Queen to meet the increased Expence to which Her Majesty may be exposed during His Majesty's Indisposition; and for the Care of His Majesty's Real and Personal Property; and to amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament, to provide for the Administration of the Royal Authority during His Majesty's Illness: And Whereas the ordinary Revenues of the Civil List have for many Years past been found inadequate to defray the Charges thereon, and the Deficiency has been made good by the Application of the Funds arising from the Droits of the Crown, or other Extraordinary Resources, or by special Grants of Parliament: And Whereas it is highly expedient that the ordinary Revenues of His Majesty's Civil List should be made adequate to the ordinary Charges thereon, and that several of the Charges which have heretofore been borne upon the Civil Lift Revenues should in future be made a Charge upon and be defrayed out of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain , or otherwise provided for; and it is also expedient that distinct and separate Appropriations should be made of certain Proportions of the Civil Lift Revenues, for the Payment of certain Charges comprised in the several Classes of the Civil List, and that further and more effectual Provision should be made for the Regulation and Controul of the Expenditure thereof;' Be it therefore 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 Authorityof the same, That from and after the Fifth Day ofApril One thousand eight hundred and sixteen, the Payment of the several Allowances and Sums of Twelve thousand Pounds to His Royal Highness Frederick Duke of York , of Two thousand five hundred Pounds to His Royal Highness William Henry Duke of Clarence , and of Four thousand Pounds to each of Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Augusta Sophia , the Princess Elizabeth , the Princess Mary , and the Princess Sophia , heretofore granted by His Majesty, and charged upon the Civil List Revenues, shall cease and determine, and such Allowances and Sums of Money shall be no longer payable or paid out of the said Revenues; but from and after the said Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and sixteen, the said several Allowances and Sums of Money respectively shall be charged and chargeable upon and issuing and payable out of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain , during the Joint Lives of His Majesty and Their said Royal Highnesses respectively, as to each of their said respective Allowances and Sums aforesaid.

S-II Allowances to the Royal Family to be paid at the Exchequer without Fee or Reward.

II Allowances to the Royal Family to be paid at the Exchequer without Fee or Reward.

II. And be it further enacted, That the said several and respective Allowances, Sums of Money and Annuities as aforesaid, shall be issued and paid out of the said Consolidated Fund, after paying and reserving sufficient to pay all such Sums as shall have been directed to be paid out of the same by any Act or Acts of Parliament made and passed before the passing of this Act, and with Preference to all other Payments which shall or may at any time after the passing of this Act be charged upon and payable out of the said Fund, and shall be paid and payable at the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer out of the said Fund, and the Auditor of the said Receipt shall and he is hereby required to make forth and pass Debentures from time to time for paying the said respective Sums, as the same shall become due and payable, without any Fees or Charges to be demanded or taken for paying the same or any Part thereof; and the respective Acquittance or Acquittances, Receipt or Receipts of Their said Royal Highnesses respectively, as to each of the said Allowances, Sums of Money or Annuities aforesaid, or of such other Person or Persons as shall be by them respectively duly authorized and appointed to receive their respective Allowances, Sums of Money or Annuities as aforesaid, or any Part thereof, shall be good and sufficient Discharges for the Payment thereof respectively; and the said Debentures to be made forth and passed for carrying into Execution the Provisions of this Act shall be a sufficient Authority to the several and respective Officers of the Receipt of the Exchequer now and for the time being, for the Payment of the said respective Sum of Money, without any further or other Warrant to be sued for, had or abtained in that Behalf; and that the said respective Sums of Money so to be paid, shall be free and clear from all Taxes, Rates and Assessments, and all other Charges whatsoever.

S-III Sums appropriated to Payment of respective Classes of Civil List, and to be applied in the First Instance in Payment thereof in Preference to all other Payments.

III Sums appropriated to Payment of respective Classes of Civil List, and to be applied in the First Instance in Payment thereof in Preference to all other Payments.

'III. And Whereas an Estimate has been laid before Parliament of the future Annual Charges of the several Classes of His Majesty's Civil List, the Amount of which, for each Class respectively, is specified in the Schedule to this Act annexed; and it is expedient, for ensuring the regular Payment of the said Charges, arising in each Class respectively, that Appropriations should be made out or the Civil List Revenues, in the manner hereinafter directed;' Be it therefore further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being, or any Three or more of them, and they are hereby required, at the Commencement of every Quarter, or within a Period not exceeding Thirty Days from the Commencement of each Quarter, by Warrant under their Hands, to direct what Sums shall respectively be set apart and...

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