Civil List Act 1936

1936 Chapter 15

An Act to make provision for the honour and dignity of the Crown and the Royal Family, and for the payment of certain salaries, allowances and pensions; to enable His Majesty to assent to arrangements on behalf of any son of His Majesty being Duke of Cornwall for the payment of certain sums out of the revenues of the Duchy during the minority of the said Duke; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

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, that Your Majesty desired that the contingency of Your Majesty's marriage should be taken into account, so that in that event there should be provision for Her Majesty the Queen, and for Members of Your Majesty's Family corresponding to the provision which the House of Commons have been willing to make in like circumstances in the past, and that your Majesty also desired that suitable provision should be made for His Royal Highness the Duke of York as the Heir Presumptive, and, in certain events, for His Royal Highness's family :

And whereas Your Majesty has further been graciously pleased to signify Your Majesty's intention, so long as the Duchy of Cornwall is vested in Your Majesty, to make the said provision for His Royal Highness the Duke of York, and, in so far as the revenues of the Duchy may be sufficient for the purpose, to provide for Your Majesty'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 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 authority of the same, as follows :—