Civil List Act 1936

2Annual payment for Civil List

There shall, during the present reign and a period of six months afterwards, be paid for the King's Civil List, the yearly sum of four hundred and ten thousand pounds:

Provided that the rate of payment shall be reduced—

(a)in respect of any period during which His Majesty is unmarried, by forty thousand pounds per annum; and

(b)in respect of any period in the lifetime of His Royal Highness the Duke of York during which the Duchy of Cornwall is vested in His Majesty, by an annual amount equal to the sum by which the net revenues of the Duchy for the year exceed twenty-five thousand pounds; and

(c)in respect of any other period during which the Duchy of Cornwall is vested in His Majesty, by an annual amount equal to the net revenues of the Duchy for the year.