1Short title and commencement
This Act may be cited as the Royal Style and Titles Act 1947, and shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by proclamation 1.
[2. Deleted: No. 11 of 1953 s. 3.]
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Bill homepageThis Act may be cited as the Royal Style and Titles Act 1947, and shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by proclamation 1.
[2. Deleted: No. 11 of 1953 s. 3.]
Where the Style and Titles appertaining to the Crown appear in an Act, schedule, form, regulation, rule, rule of court, local law or by‑law, enacted, prescribed or made in, pursuant to, or under the authority of an Act, they are amended by substituting for them, the Styles and Titles set forth in the Schedule to this Act 2.
When and as often as the Style and Titles appertaining to the Crown are altered, the Governor may by proclamation declare that the Style and Titles as so altered shall be substituted for the Style and Titles appearing in any Act, schedule, form, regulation, rule, rule of court, local law or by‑law, enacted, prescribed or made in, pursuant to or under the authority of an Act 3.
[Section 3 inserted: No. 11 of 1953 s. 4; amended: No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]
1 This reprint is a compilation as at 24 September 2004 of the Royal Style and Titles Act 1947 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table. The table also contains information about any reprint.
Short title | Number and year | Assent | Commencement |
|---|---|---|---|
Royal Style and Titles Act 1947 | 38 of 1947 | 11 Dec 1947 | 19 Mar 1948 (see s. 1 and Gazette 19 Mar 1948 p. 627‑8) |
Royal Style and Titles Act Amendment Act 1953 | 11 of 1953 | 10 Nov 1953 | 11 Dec 1953 (see s. 2 and Gazette 11 Dec 1953 p. 2423) |
Local Government (Consequential Amendments) Act 1996 s. 4 | 14 of 1996 | 28 Jun 1996 | 1 Jul 1996 (see s. 2) |
Reprint 1: The Royal Style and Titles Act 1947 as at 24 Sep 2004 (includes amendments listed above) | |||
2 The Schedule referred to is a Schedule to the Royal Style and Titles Act Amendment Act 1953 and reads as follows:
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Schedule
The Royal Style and Titles
Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Australia and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of The Faith.
”.
Section 5 of that Act reads as follows:
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In this Act, “the United Kingdom” means the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
”.
3 By a proclamation made under s. 3(2) of this Act and published in the Gazette 7 December 1973 at p. 4479, the Style and Titles pertaining to the Crown were altered to:
“
Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth.
”.