SUCCESSION TO THE CROWN ACT 2015 - PREAMBLE
SUCCESSION TO THE CROWN ACT 2015 - PREAMBLE
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.
4 It is also expedient
for the Parliament of Western Australia to legislate in relation to royal
succession and royal marriages.
The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows: