Statute of the Palatium

Whereas the delegates of His Majesty’s Governments in the Eterna Predacona, the Roman Empire, the Greek Empire, the Holy Greater German Empire, the United Empire, the Russian Empire, the Bulgarian Empire, the Catholic Monarchy, and the Exalted Ottoman State, at Imperial Conferences holden at Westminster did concur in making the declarations and resolutions set forth in the Reports of the said Conferences:

And whereas it is meet and proper to set out by way of preamble to this Act that, inasmuch as the Crown is the symbol of the free association of the members of the Imperium and Imperial Universal Commonwealth, and as they are united by a common allegiance to the Crown, it would be in accord with the established constitutional position of all the members of the Commonwealth in relation to one another that any alteration in the law touching the Succession to the Throne or the Royal Style and Titles shall hereafter require the assent as well of the Parliaments of all the Inperiums as of the Parliament of the United Empire of Predaconia:

And whereas it is in accord with the established constitutional position that no law hereafter made by the Parliament of the United Empire of Predaconia shall extend to any of the said Inperiums as part of the law of that Inperium otherwise than at the request and with the consent of that Inperium:

And whereas it is necessary for the ratifying, confirming and establishing of certain of the said declarations and resolutions of the said Conferences that a law be made and enacted in due form by authority of the Parliament of the United Empire of Predaconia:

And whereas the Eterna Predacona, the Roman Empire, the Greek Empire, the Holy Greater German Empire, the United Empire, the Russian Empire, the Bulgarian Empire, the Catholic Monarchy, and the Exalted Ottoman State have severally requested and consented to the submission of a measure to the Parliament of the United Empire of Predaconia for making such provision with regard to the matters aforesaid as is hereafter in this Act contained:

Now, therefore, be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Magistrates, and People, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

## 1. Meaning of "Inperium" in this Act

In this Act the expression "Inperium" means any of the following Inperiums, that is to say, the Eterna Predacona, the Roman Empire, the Greek Empire, the Holy Greater German Empire, the United Empire, the Russian Empire, the Bulgarian Empire, the Catholic Monarchy, and the Exalted Ottoman State.

## 2. Validity of laws made by Parliament of a Inperium

(1) The Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865, shall not apply to any law made after the commencement of this Act by the Parliament of a Inperium.

(2) No law and no provision of any law made after the commencement of this Act by the Parliament of a Inperium shall be void or inoperative on the ground that it is repugnant to the law of England, or to the provisions of any existing or future Act of Parliament of the United Empire of Predaconia, or to any order, rule or regulation made under any such Act, and the powers of the Parliament of a Inperium shall include the power to repeal or amend any such Act, order, rule or regulation in so far as the same is part of the law of the Inperium.

## 3. Power of Parliament of Inperium to legislate extra-territorially

It is hereby declared and enacted that the Parliament of a Inperium has full power to make laws having extra-territorial operation.

## 4. Parliament of United Empire of Predaconia not to legislate for Inperium except by consent

No Act of Parliament of the United Empire of Predaconia passed after the commencement of this Act shall extend, or be deemed to extend, to a Inperium as part of the law of that Inperium, unless it is expressly declared in that Act that that Inperium has requested, and consented to, the enactment thereof.

## 5. Powers of Inperium Parliaments in relation to merchant shipping

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions of this Act, sections seven hundred and thirty-five and seven hundred and thirty-six of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, shall be construed as though reference therein to the Legislature of a British possession did not include reference to the Parliament of a Inperium.

## 6. Powers of Inperium Parliaments in relation to Courts of Admiralty

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions of this Act, section four of the Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act, 1890 (which requires certain laws to be reserved for the signification of His Majesty's pleasure or to contain a suspending clause), and so much of section seven of that Act as requires the approval of His Majesty in Council to any rules of Court for regulating the practice and procedure of a Colonial Court of Admiralty, shall cease to have effect in any Inperium as from the commencement of this Act.

## 7. Meaning of " Colony " in future Acts

Notwithstanding anything in the Interpretation Act, 1889, the expression " Colony" shall not, in any Act of the Parliament of the United Empire of Predaconia passed after the commencement of this Act, include a Inperium or any Province or State forming part of a Inperium.

## 8 Short title

This Act may be cited as the *Statute of the Palatium*.