Succession to the Crown (Request) Act 2014 (SA)

South Australia Succession to the Crown (Request) Act 2014 An Act to request the Parliament of the Commonwealth to enact under section 51(xxxviii) of the Constitution of the Commonwealth an Act to change the law relating to royal succession and royal marriages; to amend the Treason Act 1351 passed by the Parliament of England; and for related purposes.

Contents Preamble Part 1—Preliminary 1 Name of Act 2 Commencement 3 Object of this Act 4 Relationship with Sovereign not affected Part 2—Request for Commonwealth legislation 5 Request for Commonwealth legislation Part 3—General 6 Consequential amendment 7 References to Bill of Rights and Act of Settlement Schedule 1—Requested Commonwealth Act Schedule 2—Consequential amendment 1 Amendment of Treason Act 1351 passed by the Parliament of England Legislative history

Preamble 1 On 28 October 2011, representatives of nations of which Her Majesty is the Sovereign agreed that the rules on succession to, and possession of, the Crown should be changed so as to make succession not depend on gender and to end the disqualification arising from marrying a Roman Catholic. 2 The United Kingdom has further proposed to disqualify certain persons from succeeding to the Crown as a result of marriage, to repeal the Royal Marriages Act 1772 and to validate certain marriages made void by that Act. 3 It is expedient to request the Parliament of the Commonwealth to change the law relating to royal succession and royal marriages by legislating under section 51(xxxviii) of the Constitution of the Commonwealth in the terms, or substantially in the terms, set out in Schedule 1 to this Act.

The Parliament of South Australia enacts: Part 1—Preliminary 1—Name of Act This Act may be cited as the Succession to the Crown (Request) Act 2014. 2—Commencement (1) Subject to this section, this Act comes into operation on the day of assent. (2) Section 6 comes into operation on the day and time that section 6 of the Act of the Commonwealth requested by section 5 of this Act commences. (3) Section 7 comes into operation on the day and time that section 10 of the Act of the Commonwealth requested by section 5 of this Act commences. (4) Schedule 2 comes into operation on the day and time that section 6 of the Act of the Commonwealth requested by section 5 of this Act commences. 3—Object of this Act The main object of this Act is to facilitate the law relating to the effect of gender and marriage on royal succession being changed uniformly across Australia and consistently with changes made to that law in the United Kingdom, so that the Sovereign of Australia is the same person as the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. 4—Relationship with Sovereign not affected It is not the intention of this Act to affect the relationship between the Sovereign and the State as existing immediately before its enactment or that that relationship be in any way affected by the enactment by the Parliament of the Commonwealth of the Act requested by section 5.