Bill
Succession to the Crown Bill 2015
passed, as at 2015-03-24. Prime Minister portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Prime Minister
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2015-03-05
- second reading — 2015-03-05
- second reading — 2015-03-17
- second reading — 2015-03-17
- third reading — 2015-03-17
- introduced — 2015-03-18
- second reading — 2015-03-18
- second reading — 2015-03-19
- second reading — 2015-03-19
- third reading — 2015-03-19
- passed — 2015-03-19
- royal assent — 2015-03-24
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2015-03-05.
The bill would change royal succession rules in Australia to remove gender discrimination and the ban on marrying a Roman Catholic.
It would implement changes agreed by the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms in 2011, after all Australian states request the Commonwealth to act.
The bill would limit the requirement for sovereign consent to marriages of the six people closest to the throne and validate some marriages previously voided under British law.
- Ends male preference primogeniture so future succession follows birth order alone.
- Removes the rule that marrying a Roman Catholic disqualifies a person from the line of succession.
- Limits the sovereign's consent requirement to the six nearest heirs and validates marriages voided by the Royal Marriages Act 1772.
Members of the royal family and the line of succession to the Australian Crown.
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