{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-list-increase-of-financial-provision-order-1990/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2018",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil List (Increase of Financial Provision) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-list-increase-of-financial-provision-order-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order increases the annual payment for the Queen’s Civil List, namely that sum appropriated to the salaries and expenses of Her Majesty’s Household, and royal bounty, alms and special services. The amount now authorised by this Order is £7,900,000, in place of £3,850,000 fixed by the Civil List (Increase of Financial Provision) Order 1984 (“the 1984 Order”) (article 2).\nThis Order also provides for the following increases in the yearly sums or aggregate yearly sums payable to other Members of the Royal Family:–\nHer Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother from £334,400 to £643,000 (article 3)\nHRH the Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh from £186,500 to £359,000 (article 4)\nHRH the Duke of York from £50,000 to £249,000 (article 5)\nHRH the Prince Edward from £20,000 to £96,000 (article 5)\nHRH the Princess Royal from £116,200 to £228,000 (article 5)\nHRH the Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon from £113,100 to £219,000 (article 6)\nHRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester from £45,800 to £87,000 (article 7).\nThese sums include, in the case of Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal £15,000 payable under section 4(1)(a) of the 1952 Act and in the case of Her Royal Highness the Princess Margaret, £6,000 payable under section 6(1) of Civil List Act 1937.\nThis Order also increases the annual sum paid to the Royal Trustees, as a contribution towards the expenses of official duties, for those members of the Royal Family for whom Parliament has not made other provision. The Order provides for the total sum for that purpose to be increased to £636,000 from £331,000 (article 8).\nThis Order authorises an increase to £15,000 of the yearly sum which may be used for new awards of Civil List Pensions (article 9).\nExcept for His Royal Highness the Prince Edward all the yearly sums increased by this Order have hitherto been supplemented out of money voted by Parliament under section 1 of the Civil List Act 1975 (c. 82).\nThe Order revokes the 1984 Order.\nThe Order comes into force on 1st January 1991.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2018/note",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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