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Reprinted as of 31 July 1983
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
I, Short title
2. Assent to adoption of new Royal Style and Title in relation to Australia
SCHEDULE
Royal Style and Title
An Act relating to the Royal Style and Titles
WHEREAS, in accordance with the Royal Style and Titles Act 1953 : Her Majesty, by Proclamation dated 28th May, 1953, adopted, as the Royal Style and Titles to be used in relation to the Commonwealth of Australia and its Territories, the Style and Titles set forth in the Schedule to that Act:
AND WHEREAS the Government of Australia considers it desirable to pro pose to Her Majesty a change in the form of the Royal Style and Titles to be used in relation to Australia and its Territories:
AND WHEREAS the proposed new Style and Titles, being the Style and Titles set forth in the Schedule to this Act, retains the common element re ferred to in the preamble to the Royal Style and Titles Act 1953:
BE IT THEREFORE enacted by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia as follows:
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Royal Style and Titles Act 1973,
Assent to adoption of new Royal Style and Titles in relation to Australia
2. (1) The assent of the Parliament is hereby given to the adoption by Her Majesty, for use
in relation to Australia and its Territories, in lieu of the Style and Titles set forth in the
Schedule to the Royal Sty1e and Titles Act 1953, of the Style and Titles set forth In the
Schedule to this Act, and to the issue for that purpose by Her Majesty of Her Royal
Proclamation under such seal as Her Majesty by Warrant appoints.
(2) The Proclamation referred to in subsection (1) shall be published in the Gazette and shall have effect on the date upon which it is so published.
SCHEDULE
Royal Style and Titles
Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth.
NOTES
I Preamb1e and S. 2(1)- TheRoyal Style
and Titles Act 1953 was repealed by the Statute Law Revision
2. Act No. 114,1973; reservedfor Her Majesty‘s pleasure, 14 September 1973, Queen's Assent, 19 October 1973;
EXHIBIT
Commission
Commonwealth of Australia Gazette
No.S 66, Monday, 19 February 1996
Published by the Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra
Passed under the Royal Sign Manual and the Great Seal of Australia appointing
THE HONOURABLE SIR WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, AC, KBE
to be the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia
ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth: To the Honourable Sir William Patrick Deane, Companion of the Order of Australia, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire,
Greeting:
WE DO, by this Our Commission under Our Sign Manual and the Great Seal of Australia, appoint you, Sir William Patrick Deane, to be, during Our pleasure, Our Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia.
AND WE DO authorise, empower and command you to exercise and perform all and singular the powers and directions contained in the Letters Patent dated 21 August 1984 relating to the office of Governor-General or in future Letters Patent relating to that office, according to such instructions as Our Governor-General for the time being may have received or may in future receive from Us, and according to such laws as are from time to time in force.
AND WE DO declare that the powers conferred by this Our Commission include any further powers that may in future be assigned to the Governor-General in accordance with section 2 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia.
AND, so soon as you shall have taken the prescribed oaths and have entered upon the duties of
your office, this Our present Commission shall supersede Our Commission dated 4 January 1989
appointing the Honourable William George Hayden to be Governor-General of the
Commonwealth of Australia and Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Force of the
Commonwealth of Australia.
Given at our Court at Sandringham on 29 December 1995
By Her Majesty's Command,
Paul Keating
Prime Minister
On 29 December 1995