Royal Style and Titles Act 1947

Reprint 1: The Act as at 24 September 2004


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Reprinted under the Reprints Act 1984 as

at 24 September 2004

Royal Style and Titles Act 1947

CONTENTS

1.Short title and commencement1

3.Royal Style and Titles 1

Notes

Compilation table3

 

 

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Reprinted under the Reprints Act 1984 as

at 24 September 2004

Royal Style and Titles Act 1947

An Act relating to the Royal Style and Titles of His Majesty.

1.Short 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. Repealed by No. 11 of 1953 s. 3.]

3.Royal Style and Titles

(1)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.

(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 by No. 11 of 1953 s. 4; amended by No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]

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Notes

1This 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.

Compilation table

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:

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:

In this Act, “the United Kingdom” means the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

”.

3By 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.

”.

By Authority: JOHN A. STRIJK, Government Printer