Regency Act 1943
An Act to amend the law as to the delegation of royal functions to Counsellors of State.
Whereas Your Majesty, by Your Majesty’s Royal Message to both Houses of Parliament, has recommended that Parliament should review the provision made for the delegation of royal functions to Counsellors of State in the event of the Sovereign’s illness or absence or intended absence from the United Kingdom, and should consider whether it be not expedient to make provision for including among such Counsellors the person who is the heir apparent or heir presumptive to the Throne if that person, although not of full age, is of such age that his accession would not necessitate a Regency:
And whereas Your Majesty in the same Message has recommended that Parliament should also consider whether it be not expedient to make provision for enabling persons who are absent or intend to be absent from the United Kingdom to be excepted from among the number of Counsellors of State: