Civil List Act 1972
1972 CHAPTER 7
An Act to make further provision for the honour and dignity of the Crown and the Royal Family, and for the payment of certain allowances and pensions.
[24th February 1972]
Most Gracious Sovereign,
Whereas Your Majesty has been graciously pleased to signify to Your faithful Commons in Parliament assembled that Your Majesty is desirous that consideration should be given to the provision for Your Majesty’s Civil List made by Parliament in the first year of Your Majesty’s reign, the provision then made for His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh and other members of Your Family, and the provision made in the first year of Your Majesty’s father’s reign for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and for His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester; and that provision should be now made for Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester and any future wife of a younger son of Your Majesty in the event of any of them surviving her husband:
And Whereas Your Majesty has further been graciously pleased to signify that Your Majesty is content to forgo the provision made by Parliament for Your Majesty’s Privy Purse:
1 Annual payment for the Queen’s Civil List.
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2 Further provision for members of the Royal Family.
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3 Supplementary provision.
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4 Civil List and other pensions.
(1) In section 5 of the Civil List Act 1837 (Civil List pensions) for the words “one thousand two hundred pounds a year” in each place where those words occur there shall be substituted the words “£10,000 a year”, and so much of section 13(1) of the Civil List Act 1952 as increased the said £1,200 a year to £5,000 a year shall cease to have effect.
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(2) For section 7(1) of the Civil List Act 1952 there shall be substituted the following subsection —
“ (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 (including retired allowances taking account of previous employment), or of any sums so granted in order to enhance superannuation benefits to be derived from later employment. ”
5 Reports by Royal Trustees as to financial provision made by this Act.
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6 Power by order to increase financial provision made by this Act.
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7 Charge of payments under this Act.
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8 Short title and supplemental provisions.
(1) This Act may be cited as the Civil List Act 1972.
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(4) The enactments mentioned in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule, but subject to the provisions at the end of that Schedule.
(5) Sections 1, 2 and 3 of this Act shall have effect as respects payments to be made for the year 1972 and subsequent years, and section 2(1) of the Civil List Act 1952(Queen’s Civil List) shall not apply to such payments.
(6) Section 4(1) of this Act, and the repeal in section 13(1) of the Civil List Act 1952, shall have effect as from 1st April 1972.
