Royal Succession Act 2013

1: Title
This Act is the Royal Succession Act 2013.
2: Commencement
1: Parts 1 2
2: One or more orders may be made appointing different times and days for different provisions.
3: Before the time and day appointed for a provision by an order under subsection (1) (in this Act called the changeover
4: The rest of this Act comes into force on the day after the date on which this Act receives the Royal assent.
5: An order under this section is secondary legislation ( see Part 3 The following table is small in size and has 3 columns that are grouped under the heading Legislation Act 2019 requirements for secondary legislation made under this section. Legislation Act 2019 requirements for secondary legislation made under this section Publication PCO must publish it on the legislation website and notify it in the Gazette LA19 s 69(1)﻿(c) Presentation The Minister must present it to the House of Representatives LA19 s 114 cl 32(1)﻿(a) Disallowance It may be disallowed by the House of Representatives LA19 ss 115 116 This note is not part of the Act. Section 2(1) brought into force 26 March 2015 Royal Succession Act Commencement Order 2015 Section 2(5) inserted 28 October 2021 section 3 Secondary Legislation Act 2021
1: Formal and substantive provisions
Formal provisions
3: Purpose
The purpose of this Act is—
a: to implement in New Zealand law changes to the rules of Royal succession approved in principle at a meeting on 28 October 2011, coinciding with the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, Australia, or agreed through later discussions among the Sovereign's Realms:
b: to provide for the succession to the Crown to be determined without regard to the sex of people born after 12 noon on 29 October 2011 (New Zealand daylight time):
c: to abolish the exclusions from the succession to and possession of the Crown of people who marry a person of the Roman Catholic faith:
d: to provide for the Royal Marriages Act 1772
e: to validate (for purposes other than succession to the Crown purposes) certain marriages solemnised without awareness of, and compliance with, the requirements of the Royal Marriages Act 1772
4: Act binds the Crown
This Act binds the Crown. Substantive provisions
5: Precedence of younger brothers over older sisters in relation to succession to the Crown abolished
1: In the determination of the succession to the Crown, no regard is to be had to the sex of any person born after 12 noon on 29 October 2011 (New Zealand daylight time).
2: The rule of law by which a younger brother or a descendant of his has, in relation to succession to the Crown, precedence over an older sister or a descendant of hers is abolished to the extent that it conflicts with subsection (1).
6: Exclusions from succession to and possession of the Crown of people who marry Roman Catholic abolished
No person is excluded from succeeding to or possessing the Crown by virtue only of marrying, after the changeover, a person of the Roman Catholic faith.
7: Restoration to succession to and possession of the Crown of certain people who have married Roman Catholic
No person alive immediately before the changeover is excluded from succeeding to or possessing the Crown by virtue only of having married, before the changeover, a person of the Roman Catholic faith.
8: Certain people excluded from succession to the Crown on marrying without consent of Sovereign
1: A person who, after the changeover, proposes to marry, and who immediately before marrying is one of the 6 people next in the line of succession to the Crown, must obtain before marrying the consent to the marriage concerned of the Sovereign in right of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
2: The effect of a person's failure to comply with subsection (1) is that the person and the person's descendants from the marriage concerned are excluded from succeeding to the Crown.
9: Certain marriages of descendants of George II validated
1: The Royal Marriages Act 1772
a: at the time the marriage was solemnised, neither party was one of the 6 people next in the line of succession to the Crown; and
b: at the time the marriage was solemnised, the (or each) party descended from His late Majesty King George the Second was unaware, and it was reasonable in all the circumstances for that (or for each such) party not to be aware, that that Act applied to it; and
c: before the changeover, no person has acted on the basis that the marriage was void.
2: A party to the marriage is, for the purposes of this section, aware that that Act applied to it if consent under section 1 section 2
3: Subsection (2) does not limit subsection (1)﻿(b).
2: Application in New Zealand of Imperial Acts
10: Application of Bill of Rights 1688
The Bill of Rights 1688 section 1
a: or by any King or Queene marrying a Papist
b: or shall marry a Papist
c: or marrying OIC LI 2015/54 2015-03-26 Bill of Rights 1688 Parts 1 & 2 come in force at 1 pm on 26 March 2015
11: Application of Act of Settlement 1700
The Act of Settlement 1700
a: deleting from the Preamble or marry a Papist or marrying
b: deleting from section 2 or shall marry a Papist OIC LI 2015/54 2015-03-26 Act of Settlement 1700 Parts 1 & 2 come in force at 1 pm on 26 March 2015
12: Application of Royal Marriages Act 1772
1: On the changeover, the Royal Marriages Act 1772
2: Sections 32 to 35 Royal Marriages Act 1772 OIC LI 2015/54 2015-03-26 Royal Marriages Act 1772 Talked to Michelle about this one. She said to put it down as OIC and if or when it does get OIC, we will find out what to do with it. (Doreen 19/12/2013) | Parts 1 & 2 come in force at 1 pm on 26 March 2015 (MF) Section 12(2) amended 28 October 2021 section 3 Secondary Legislation Act 2021
13: Imperial Laws Application Act 1988 amended
1: This section consequentially amends the Imperial Laws Application Act 1988
2: In Schedule 1
a: in the item relating to the Bill of Rights 1688, after (6 Geo 4, c 50) and section 10
b: in the item relating to the Act of Settlement 1700,—
i: after Preamble (as amended by section 11(a)
ii: after (10 Edw 7 and 1 Geo 5, c 29) (and section 11(b)
c: repeal the item relating to the Royal Marriages Act 1772 OIC LI 2015/54 2015-03-26 Imperial Laws Application Act 1988 Parts 1 & 2 come in force at 1 pm on 26 March 2015