Civil_List_and_Secret_Service_Money_Act_1782

Civil List and Secret Service Money Act 1782

Civil List and Secret Service Money Act 1782

United Kingdom legislation

The Civil List and Secret Service Money Act 1782 (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.[2] A section of the act also abolished the existing Council of Trade and Foreign Plantations which, with the loss of the American War of Independence, had been dismissed earlier by King George III on 2 May 1782.[3]

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  1. [1]
    The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by the Short Titles Act 1896, section 1 and the first schedule. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  2. [2]
    Mark A. Thomson, A Constitutional History of England. 1642 to 1801 (London: Methuen, 1938), p. 343.
  3. [3]
    Council of trade and plantations 1696-1782, in Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 3, Officials of the Boards of Trade 1660-1870, p.28-37. Originally published by University of London, London, 1974.
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