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No. 23, 2015

An Act to change the law relating to royal succession and royal marriages, and for related purposes

[Assented to 24 March 2015]

Preamble

On 28 October 2011, representatives of nations of which Her Majesty is the Sovereign agreed that the rules on succession to, and possession of, the Crown should be changed so as to make succession not depend on gender and to end the disqualification arising from marrying a Roman Catholic.