The Sovereign Grant Act 2011 (Duration of Sovereign Grant Provisions) Order 2022

Statutory Instruments

2022 No. 954

Crown

The Sovereign Grant Act 2011 (Duration of Sovereign Grant Provisions) Order 2022

Made

10th September 2022

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2)

At the Court at St. James’s Palace, the 10th day of September 2022

Present,

The King’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

His Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 16(3) of the Sovereign Grant Act 2011(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order as follows:

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Sovereign Grant Act 2011 (Duration of Sovereign Grant Provisions) Order 2022.

(2) This Order comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Duration of Sovereign Grant provisions

2.  Instead of expiring in accordance with section 16(1) of the Sovereign Grant Act 2011, the Sovereign Grant provisions(2) expire 6 months after the end of the present reign.

Richard Tilbrook

Clerk of the Privy Council

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Sovereign Grant Act 2011 (“the Act”) makes provision for the payment of a Sovereign Grant to the Sovereign each financial year. The purpose of the Sovereign Grant for a financial year is to provide resources for use for that year by the Royal Household in support of the Sovereign’s official duties.

The Sovereign Grant provisions (sections 1 to 9, 11 and 12 of the Act) cease to have effect 6 months after the death of the Sovereign unless alternative provision is made by an Order in Council within six months of the new reign.

This Order provides that, instead of expiring in accordance with section 16(1) of the Act, the Sovereign Grant provisions expire 6 months after the end of the present reign.

(1)

2011 c. 15.

(2)

The term “Sovereign Grant provisions” is defined in section 16(2) of the Sovereign Grant Act 2011. Those provisions are sections 1 to 9, 11 and 12 of that Act.