Royal Titles Act 1953

Royal Titles Act 1953 (1953)

In 1948 and 1953, further changes were made to the title of the monarch by British Acts of Parliament. However the law passed in 1953 was the first to apply only to the United Kingdom and its dependencies. In that year the practice was begun of using separate styles for each of the Commonwealth Realms in which the monarch is head of state, the style in each case determined by the native parliament. In 1953 the Dominion governments agreed that the practice of separate titles should continue in the reign of the new Queen Elizabeth II. Each country adopted their own titles, the British act of parliament clearly stated that it applied only to the United Kingdom and those overseas territories whose foreign relations were controlled by the UK government. Warning: template has been deprecated.

This act should not be confused with the Royal Style and Titles Act 1953 issued by the Parliament of Australia.[1]

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Royal Titles Act 1953

1 & 2 Eliz. 2 c. 9

An Act to provide for an alteration of the Royal Style and Titles.

[26th March 1953]

Whereas it is expedient that the style and titles at present appertaining to the Crown should be altered so as to reflect more clearly the existing constitutional relations of the members of the Commonwealth to one another and their recognition of the Crown as the symbol of their free association and of the Sovereign as the Head of the Commonwealth:

And whereas it was agreed between representatives of Her Majesty’s Governments in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon assembled in London in the Month of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-two, that there is need for an alteration thereof which, whilst permitting of the use in relation to each of those countries of a form suiting its particular circumstances, would retain a substantial element common to all:

1. The assent of the Parliament of the United Kingdom is hereby given to the adoption by Her Majesty, for use in relation to the United Kingdom and all other the territories for whose foreign relations Her Government in the United Kingdom is responsible, of such style and titles as Her Majesty may think fit having regard to the said agreement, in lieu of the style and titles at present appertaining to the Crown, and to the issue by Her for that purpose of Her Royal Proclamation under the Great Seal of the Realm.

2. This Act may be cited as the Royal Titles Act 1953.

This work is in the public domain worldwide because it is one of the following types of legislation in the United Kingdom, and received Royal Assent or the approval of HM in Council (as applicable) before 1974:

Act of Parliament
Act of the Scottish Parliament
Measure of the National Assembly for Wales
Act of Senedd Cymru (formerly known as an Act of the National Assembly for Wales)
Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly
Measure of the General Synod of the Church of England

See section 164 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended).

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Royal Titles Act 1953

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