| Commencement information | ||
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 4. Part 5 | The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. | 24 March 2015 |
| 5. Schedule 1 | A time and day or times and days, to be fixed by Proclamation. | 26 March 2015 (F2015L00337) |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
3 Object of this Act
The main object of this Act is to change the law relating to the effect of gender and marriage on royal succession, consistently with changes made to that law in the United Kingdom, so that the Sovereign of Australia is the same person as the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.
4 Relationship with Sovereign not affected
This Act is not intended to affect the relationship between the Sovereign and the Commonwealth, the States and the Territories as existing immediately before its enactment.
5 Definition of Crown
In this Act:
Crown means the Crown in all of its capacities.
