There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Regency Act 1937, Introductory Text.
An Act to make provision for a Regency in the event of the Sovereign being on His Accession under the age of eighteen years, and in the event of the incapacity of the Sovereign through illness, and for the performance of certain of the royal functions in the name and on behalf of the Sovereign in certain other events; to repeal the Lords Justices Act 1837; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[19th March 1937]
Whereas Your Majesty, by Your Majesty’s Royal Message to both Houses of Parliament, has been pleased to recommend that provision should be made for a Regency in certain events:
And whereas Your Majesty in the same Message put both Houses of Parliament in mind of the difficulties which arose in relation to the exercise of the Royal Authority at the time of the illness of His late Majesty King George the Fifth in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-eight and of His last illness in the month of January nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and recommended that Parliament should consider whether it be not expedient to make permanent provision for the purpose of securing the exercise of the Royal Authority as well in the event of the incapacity of the Sovereign as in the event of the minority of the Sovereign on His Accession and in certain other circumstances:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Act amended by Regency Act 1953 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2 c. 1), s. 2
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