This Enactment may be cited as the Civil List Enactment 1959.

There shall be paid for the Civil List of His Royal Highness the Sultan, so long as he shall occupy the throne, the sums specified in the First Schedule.

Notwithstanding subsection (1), for the year 1980 there shall be paid for the Civil List of His Royal Highness the Sultan the sum specified in the Second Schedule.

All payments in respect of the amount specified in Class I of the First Schedule for the Privy Purse of His Royal Highness the Sultan shall be paid to His Highness the Sultan and all payments in respect of the amount specified in the said Class in the Privy Purse of Her Royal Highness the Tengku Ampuan shall be paid to Her Royal Highness the Tengku Ampuan.

All payments in respect of the amount specified in the said Class in the Privy Purse of Her Royal Highness the Tengku Permaisuri shall be paid to Her Royal Highness the Tengku Permaisuri.

All payments in respect of the amounts specified in the First Schedule (other than the amount specified for Class I) shall be made to the Comptroller of the Household.

No payment in respect of the amount specified for Class I of the First Schedule shall be made in respect of any period during which the Throne is vacant.

There shall be paid to the Regent or Council of Regency
during any period for which such Regent or Council of Regency shall have been appointed by the Dewan DiRaja or by His Royal Highness the Sultan to exercise the prerogative of and perform the duties of His Royal Highness the Sultan such sums as may be decided by the Executive Council either in addition to or in substitution for any sums that the person or persons so appointed may otherwise receive from public funds:

Provided that the total of the emoluments payable shall not
exceed the total which would be payable to His Royal Highness the Sultan under this Enactment.

The sums required for the payments under sections 2 and 3
shall be charged on the Consolidated Fund.

The amount specified in Class I of the First Schedule under
section 2 and the sums payable under section 3 shall—

(a) accrue from day to day; and

(b) be payable monthly on the last day of each month or such
other day as the Menteri Besar may from time to time determine.

In the application of the sums paid in respect of any year under section 2, the amounts specified in the First Schedule shall be appropriated to the Classes of expenditure shown therein.

If it appears that the sum appropriated to any class of expenditure in any year will not be wholly required for expenditure of that class in that year the Menteri Besar may direct that the amount not required may be applied as an addition to the sum available for any other class.

The sums paid to the Comptroller of the Household in respect of the amounts specified for Classes II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII and IX of the First Schedule for any year shall be applied in that year by the Comptroller of the Household in conformity with estimates for that year submitted by him to and approved by the Menteri Besar:

Provided that the Menteri Besar may from time to time sanction amendments to the estimates which have been approved by him for the year.

Any balance of the sums appropriated under Classes II, III,
IV, V, VI, VII, VIII and IX of the First Schedule which remains
unspent at the end of the year shall revert to the Consolidated
Fund.

The State Financial Officer may give directions to the Comptroller of the Household regarding the form in which estimates are to be submitted, the keeping of all necessary books and accounts, and the care and management of all public moneys entrusted to him in accordance with this Enactment and the Comptroller of the Household shall act in conformity with any such directions.

If there is a change of occupant of the Throne or of the Consort of His Royal Highness the Sultan or of the person appointed to be Raja Muda or his Consort or of the person or persons appointed to be Raja Muda or his Consort or of the person or persons appointed to act as Regent or Council of Regency, there shall be made such adjustment and distribution of the annual payments due under section 2, 3 or 6 as circumstances of the case may require.

Notwithstanding any provisions in this Enactment, there shall not be paid any allowance under this Enactment—

(a) to His Royal Highness the Sultan or the Consort of His Royal Highness the Sultan who bears the title, Tengku Ampuan or Tengku Permaisuri, in respect of any period during which His Royal Highness The Sultan is elected Yang di-Pertuan Agong; or

(b) to His Royal Highness the Sultan in respect of any period exceeding fifteen days during which His Royal Highness the Sultan exercises the functions of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.