Civil List Act 1972

• Citation: 1972 c. 7
• Sections: 8

Section 1 Annual payment for the Queen’s Civil List.

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Section 2 Further provision for members of the Royal Family.

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Section 3 Supplementary provision.

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Section 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.

Section 5 Reports by Royal Trustees as to financial provision made by this Act.

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Section 6 Power by order to increase financial provision made by this Act.

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Section 7 Charge of payments under this Act.

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Section 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(4) The enactments mentioned in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule, but subject to the provisions at the end of that Schedule.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.