{{Short description|Act of the Parliament of Great Britain}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Use British English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox UK legislation | short_title = Civil List Act 1760 | type = Act | parliament = Parliament of Great Britain | long_title = An Act for the Support of his Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of Great Britain. | year = 1760 | citation = [[1 Geo. 3]]. c. 1 | territorial_extent = [[Great Britain]] | royal_assent = 9 December 1760 | commencement = 26 October 1760{{efn|Start of session.}} | repeal_date = 15 July 1867 | repealing_legislation = [[Statute Law Revision Act 1867]] | related_legislation = {{ubli|[[Civil List Act 1697]]|[[Civil List Act 1714]]|[[Civil List Act 1727]]}} | status = Repealed | original_text = https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hL0uAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA109 }}

The '''Civil List Act 1760''' ([[1 Geo. 3]]. c. 1) was an [[Act of Parliament (United Kingdom)|act]] of the [[Parliament of Great Britain]] passed upon the accession of [[George III of the United Kingdom|George III]].

The act transferred almost all [[civil list]] revenues (mainly customs and excise) to Parliament. In the last year of [[George II of Great Britain|George II]]'s reign these had been worth £876,988. In return, the new king received a fixed, annual civil list of £800,000.{{sfnp|Reitan|1966|page=323}} Under George II the economy had grown and consequently the revenues increased. The fixed amount George III received was therefore a reduction in the Civil List.{{sfnp|Reitan|1966|page=323}}

If the previous arrangement had been retained, George III's civil list in 1777 would have been more than £1,000,000 and would have amounted to £1,812,308 in 1798.{{sfnp|Reitan|1966|page=323}} The £800,000 stipulated in the act was soon found to be inadequate and a civil list crisis was only averted in the early 1760s because George II had built up savings worth £172,000 that George III was able to draw on.{{sfnp|Reitan|1966|page=324}} By the end of the decade the civil list arrears amounted to more than half a million pounds and the king had to apply to Parliament to pay it off.{{sfnp|Reitan|1966|pages=324-325}}

== Subsequent developments == The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the [[Statute Law Revision Act 1867]] ([[30 & 31 Vict.]] c. 59).

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==Bibliography== * {{cite journal |first=E. A. |last=Reitan |author-link=E. A. Reitan |title=The Civil List in Eighteenth-Century British Politics: Parliamentary Supremacy versus the Independence of the Crown |journal=The Historical Journal |volume=9 |issue=3 |date=1966 |page=318-337 |jstor=2637984 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}

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