Civil List and Secret Service Money Act 1782
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| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act for enabling his Majesty to discharge the Debt contracted upon his Civil List Revenues; and for preventing the same from being in Arrear for the future, by regulating the Mode of Payments out of the said Revenues, and by suppressing or regulating certain Offices therein mentioned, which are now paid out of the Revenues of the Civil List. |
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| Citation | 22 Geo. 3. c. 82 |
| Territorial extent | Great Britain |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 11 July 1782 |
| Commencement | 27 November 1781[b] |
| Repealed | 5 November 1993 |
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| Repealed by | Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993 |
| Relates to | Paymaster General Act 1782 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Civil List and Secret Service Money Act 1782[a] (22 Geo. 3. c. 82) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The power over the expenditure in the King's household was transferred to the Treasury, and branches of which were regulated. No pension over £300 was to be granted if the total pension list amounted to over £90,000. Thereafter, no pension was to be above £1,300 unless it was granted to members of the royal family or granted by Parliament. Secret service money employed domestically was similarly limited.[1]
The act abolished a number of offices in the Government and in the Royal Household. The government offices suppressed were the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations (which, with the loss of the American War of Independence, had been dismissed earlier by King George III on 2 May 1782),[2] and the Lords of Police in Scotland. In the Household, the principal officers of the Office of Works, the Great Wardrobe, and the Jewel Office, the Treasurer of the Chamber, the Cofferer of the Household, the six Clerks of the Green Cloth, the Paymaster of the Pensions, the Master of the Harriers, and the Master of the Staghounds were all done away with.