There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Regency Act 1937, Section 2.
(1)If the following persons or any three or more of them, that is to say, the wife or husband of the Sovereign, the Lord Chancellor, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Lord Chief Justice of England, and the Master of the Rolls, declare in writing that they are satisfied by evidence which shall include the evidence of physicians that the Sovereign is by reason of infirmity of mind or body incapable for the time being of performing the royal functions or that they are satisfied by evidence that the Sovereign is for some definite cause not available for the performance of those functions, then, until it is declared in like manner that His Majesty has so far recovered His health as to warrant His resumption of the royal functions or has become available for the performance thereof, as the case may be, those functions shall be performed in the name and on behalf of the Sovereign by a Regent.
(2)A declaration under this section shall be made to the Privy Council and communicated to the Governments of His Majesty’s Dominions F1....
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 2(2) repealed (8.11.1995) by 1995 c. 44, s. 1, Sch. 1 Pt. II
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 2(2) excluded by Ireland Act 1949 (c. 41), s. 3(3)
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