Succession to the Crown (Request) Act 2013

Succession to the Crown (Request) Act 2013

This Act may be cited as the Succession to the Crown (Request) Act 2013.

Except as provided by this section, this Act commences on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

Part 3 commences on the day and time that section 6 of the Act of the Commonwealth requested by section 5 of this Act commences.

Section 7 commences on the day and time that section 10 of the Act of the Commonwealth requested by section 5 of this Act commences.

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 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.

The Parliament requests the enactment by the Parliament of the Commonwealth of an Act in the terms, or substantially in the terms, set out in Schedule 1.

Section 56 of the Crimiinal Code is amended as follows:

by omitting from paragraph (b) "son" and substituting "child";

by omitting from paragraph (i) "and" and substituting "if the".

References, however expressed, in any law that is part of the law of the State, to the provisions of the Bill of Rights or the Act of Settlement relating to the succession to, or possession of, the Crown are to be read as including references to the provisions of this Act and of the Succession to the Crown Act 2013 of the Commonwealth.

Until provision is made in relation to this Act by order under section 4 of the Administrative Arrangements Act 1990 –

the administration of this Act is assigned to the Premier; and the department responsible to the Premier in relation to the administration of this Act is the Department of Premier and Cabinet.