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This Act may be cited as the Succession to the Crown (Request) (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2013.
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Bill homepage (legislation.nt.gov.au)This Act may be cited as the Succession to the Crown (Request) (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2013.
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.
It is not the intention of this Act to affect the relationship between the Sovereign and the Territory 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 4.
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