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To provide for the alteration of the Royal Style and Titles.

(Afrikaans text signed by the Governor-General.) (Assented to 25th February, 1953.)

HEREAS the Royal Style and Titles, as amended by proclamation dated the twenty-second day of June, 1948, issued under section one of the Royal Style and Titles Act, 1948 (Act No. 17 of 1948), are at present “Elizabeth II, Dei Gratia Magnae Britanniae, Hiberniae et terrarum transmarinarum quae in ditione sunt Britannica Regina, Fidei Defensor” in the Latin tongue, and “Elizabeth II by the Grace of God of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas Queen, Defender of the Faith” in the English tongue, respectively:

Her Majesty’s Governments in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon have agreed that it is necessary and expedient that the Style and Titles appertaining to the Crown be altered to accord with the current constitutional position within the Commonwealth and that accordingly the Parliament of each Commonwealth country should appoint and declare the Royal Style and Titles to be used in and for its own territory:

it is fit and proper that in relation to the Union of South Africa the Style and Titles of Her Majesty in the Afrikaans tongue be also appointed and declared: