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Civil List Act 1952 (c. 37)

Civil List Act 1952 1952 CHAPTER 37 15 and 16 Geo 6 and 1 Eliz 2 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. [1st August 1952] 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 expe

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Table of Content

1. Payment of hereditary revenues to the Exchequer. U.K.

2. Annual payment for the Queen’s Civil List. U.K.

3. Provision for His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. U.K.

4. Provision for Her Majesty’s younger children. U.K.

5. Provision for Her Royal Highness the Princess Margaret in the event of her marriage. U.K.

6. Provision for widow of the Duke of Cornwall. U.K.

7. Payments by Treasury in respect of retired allowances. U.K.

8. Charge of payments under this Act. U.K.

9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F18 U.K.

10. Constitution of Royal Trustees. U.K.

11. Meaning of “net revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall”. U.K.

12. Adjustments in respect of parts of years. U.K.

13. Continuance of enactments, repeal and commencement. U.K.

14. Short title. U.K.

1. Payment of hereditary revenues to the Exchequer. U.K.

2. Annual payment for the Queen’s Civil List. U.K.

3. Provision for His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. U.K.

4. Provision for Her Majesty’s younger children. U.K.

5. Provision for Her Royal Highness the Princess Margaret in the event of her marriage. U.K.

6. Provision for widow of the Duke of Cornwall. U.K.

7. Payments by Treasury in respect of retired allowances. U.K.

8. Charge of payments under this Act. U.K.

9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F18 U.K.

10. Constitution of Royal Trustees. U.K.

11. Meaning of “net revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall”. U.K.

12. Adjustments in respect of parts of years. U.K.

13. Continuance of enactments, repeal and commencement. U.K.

14. Short title. U.K.

Section 1

1. Payment of hereditary revenues to the Exchequer. U.K.

[ F1 (1) Subject to subsection (2) below, ] the hereditary revenues which were by section one of the M1 Civil List Act 1937 directed to be carried to and made part of the Consolidated Fund shall, [ F2 while section 1 of the Sovereign Grant Act 2011 is in force ] , be paid into the Exchequer and be made part of the Consolidated Fund. [ F3 (2) In relation to Scotland, the hereditary revenues of the Crown from bona vacantia , ultimus haeres and treasure trove [ F4 and from the property, rights and interests the management of which is transferred by the scheme under section 90B of the Scotland Act 1998 ] shall be paid into the Scottish Consolidated Fund. ] Textual Amendments F1 Words in s. 1 inserted (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1820 , arts. 1(2) , 4 , Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 26(a) ; S.I. 1998/3178 , art. 3 F2 Words in s. 1(1) substituted (1.4.2012) by Sovereign Grant Act 2011 (c. 15) , ss. 15(1) , 16(4) F3 S. 1(2) inserted (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1820 , arts. 1(2) , 4 , Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 26(b) ; S.I. 1998/3178 , art. 3 F4 Words in s. 1(2) inserted (coming into force in accordance with s. 72(2) of the amending Act) by Scotland Act 2016 (c. 11) , ss. 36(13) , 72(2) Modifications etc. (not altering text) C1 S. 1 excluded by Crown Agents Act 1979 (c. 43, SIF 57) , s. 28(1) S. 1 extended (E.W. & N.I.) (24.9.1997) by 1996 c. 24 , s. 6(1) ; S.I. 1997/1977 , art. 2 Marginal Citations M1 1937 c. 32 .

Section 2

2. Annual payment for the Queen’s Civil List. U.K.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Textual Amendments F5 S. 2 omitted (1.4.2012) by virtue of Sovereign Grant Act 2011 (c. 15) , s. 15(1) , Sch. 1 para. 10 Modifications etc. (not altering text) C2 Unreliable marginal note