{"id":"royal-style-and-titles-act-1947","name":"Royal Style and Titles Act 1947","slug":"royal-style-and-titles-act-1947","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"wa","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":110073,"registerId":"wa-royal-style-and-titles-act-1947-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-03","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Royal Style and Titles Act 1947","content":"![Crest]()Western Australia\n\nRoyal Style and Titles Act 1947\n\nWestern Australia\n\nRoyal Style and Titles Act 1947\n\nContents\n\n1. Short title and commencement 1\n\n3. Royal Style and Titles 1\n\nNotes\n\nCompilation table 1\n\n  \n\nWestern Australia\n\nRoyal Style and Titles Act 1947\n\nAn Act relating to the Royal Style and Titles of His Majesty.\n\n##### 1. Short title and commencement\n\nThis Act may be cited as the *Royal Style and Titles Act 1947*, and shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by proclamation 1.\n\n[**2.** Deleted: No. 11 of 1953 s. 3.]\n\n##### 3. Royal Style and Titles\n\n(1) Where the Style and Titles appertaining to the Crown appear in an Act, schedule, form, regulation, rule, rule of court, local law or by‑law, enacted, prescribed or made in, pursuant to, or under the authority of an Act, they are amended by substituting for them, the Styles and Titles set forth in the Schedule to this Act 2.\n\n(2) When and as often as the Style and Titles appertaining to the Crown are altered, the Governor may by proclamation declare that the Style and Titles as so altered shall be substituted for the Style and Titles appearing in any Act, schedule, form, regulation, rule, rule of court, local law or by‑law, enacted, prescribed or made in, pursuant to or under the authority of an Act 3.\n\n[Section 3 inserted: No. 11 of 1953 s. 4; amended: No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]\n\nNotes\n\n1 This reprint is a compilation as at 24 September 2004 of the *Royal Style and Titles Act 1947* and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table. The table also contains information about any reprint.\n\nCompilation table\n\n| **Short title** | **Number and year** | **Assent** | **Commencement** |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| *Royal Style and Titles Act 1947* | 38 of 1947 | 11 Dec 1947 | 19 Mar 1948 (see s. 1 and *Gazette* 19 Mar 1948 p. 627‑8) |\n| *Royal Style and Titles Act Amendment Act 1953* | 11 of 1953 | 10 Nov 1953 | 11 Dec 1953 (see s. 2 and *Gazette* 11 Dec 1953 p. 2423) |\n| *Local Government (Consequential Amendments) Act 1996* s. 4 | 14 of 1996 | 28 Jun 1996 | 1 Jul 1996 (see s. 2) |\n| **Reprint 1: The *Royal Style and Titles Act 1947* as at 24 Sep 2004** (includes amendments listed above) | | | |\n\n\n2 The Schedule referred to is a Schedule to the *Royal Style and Titles Act Amendment Act 1953* and reads as follows:\n\n“\n\nSchedule\n\n**The Royal Style and Titles**\n\nElizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Australia and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of The Faith.\n\n”.\n\nSection 5 of that Act reads as follows:\n\n“\n\nIn this Act, **“the United Kingdom”** means the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\n”.\n\n3 By a proclamation made under s. 3(2) of this Act and published in the *Gazette* 7 December 1973 at p. 4479, the Style and Titles pertaining to the Crown were altered to:\n\n“\n\nElizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth.\n\n”.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation has remained tightly focused on its original purpose since 1947: providing a mechanism to update royal titles in Western Australian law. The 1953 amendment expanded the mechanism to allow Governor's proclamations for future changes, and the 1996 amendment merely updated terminology (\"local law\" replacing \"by-law\"), but these were procedural refinements rather than scope expansion. The core function — automatic updating of monarchical titles — has not changed."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short — only 3 sections, with section 2 deleted","Single operative provision (section 3) with straightforward substitution mechanism","Only one defined term implied (\"the United Kingdom\" in the 1953 amending Act)","No nested exceptions or conditional logic — simple \"when X happens, do Y\" structure","Cross-references limited to the Schedule of the 1953 Amendment Act and Gazette proclamations","Legislative mechanism is mechanical and administrative rather than substantive"],"plain_english_summary":"This Western Australian law from 1947 deals with the formal titles used for the British monarch (the King or Queen) in official Western Australian documents.\n\n**What it does:**\n- **Updates royal titles automatically**: Whenever the formal title of the reigning monarch appears in any Western Australian law, regulation, form, or local by-law, this Act replaces it with the current official title.\n- **Allows future updates**: The Governor of Western Australia can issue a proclamation (an official public announcement) to update the monarch's title across all laws whenever the title changes — for example, when a new monarch takes the throne or when the style of title is modified.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- Anyone reading Western Australian legislation or official documents, as it ensures the monarch is referred to by their correct, current formal title.\n- Government lawyers and drafters who don't have to manually update every single law when the royal title changes.\n\n**Why it matters:**\nThis is essentially a housekeeping law. It prevents the awkward situation where old laws still refer to \"King George VI\" or use outdated imperial titles long after the monarch or the way we describe them has changed. For example, the original 1947 reference was updated in 1953 for Queen Elizabeth II, and her title was further updated in 1973 to remove \"Defender of the Faith\" and \"United Kingdom\" references, reflecting Australia's evolving independent identity within the Commonwealth.\n\n**Key historical note:** The Schedule shows how Australia's relationship with the Crown changed over time — from seeing the monarch as primarily \"of the United Kingdom\" (1953 version) to \"Queen of Australia\" (1973 version), reflecting the shift from empire to independent Commonwealth realm."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[],"contradictions":[]},"summary":{"complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Scope cannot be assessed as no legislative text was provided. The page supplied contains only a broken-link error message from the Western Australian legislation website."},"complexity_factors":["No legislative content was provided — only a website error message","Cannot assess structure, definitions, obligations, or scope from the available text","Complexity rating of 1 reflects absence of analysable content, not simplicity of the underlying law"],"plain_english_summary":"**The content of this legislation is not available.**\n\nThe link provided does not contain the actual text of the *Royal Style and Titles Act 1947* (Western Australia). The page has been taken down as part of a website upgrade, and only an error message and an Acknowledgement of Country are displayed.\n\n**What we can say generally:** Based on its name, this Act would have dealt with the official titles and style used to refer to the Australian monarch (the King or Queen) in Western Australia — essentially, the formal wording of how the Crown is described in official and legal documents. Similar legislation exists at the federal level.\n\n**What this means for you:** No meaningful legal analysis can be provided from the content supplied. If you need this Act, visit the Parliamentary Counsel's Office website directly or contact their helpdesk."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"The Act's function—providing a mechanism to substitute the Crown's Style and Titles in laws and subordinate instruments—has stayed the same. The substantive wording to be substituted, however, has changed over time: a Schedule inserted by the 1953 Amendment set out a specific royal style, and a Governor's proclamation under s3(2) (published 7 December 1973) altered the Style and Titles to different wording. The amendments and proclamation therefore changed the content applied by the Act while leaving its statutory mechanism intact (Schedule; notes 2–3)."},"complexity_factors":["Very short, single-purpose statute with limited operative provisions (s1 and s3).","Delegation of substitution power to the Governor by proclamation creates executive discretion (s3(2)).","Operative effect is broad in reach because it applies to Acts, regulations, rules, forms, rules of court, local laws and by‑laws—so many instruments are potentially impacted (s3(1)).","Dependence on an externally supplied Schedule for the specific wording (Schedule inserted by 1953 amendment) increases textual linkage across instruments (Schedule; notes).","History of amendments and a recorded proclamation changing the wording (1953 Amendment Schedule; 1973 Gazette proclamation) introduces interpretive and implementation history to consider (notes 2–3).","Practical compliance burden falls on many agencies and courts to update documents when substitution is proclaimed (operational consequence of s3(1)–(2))."],"plain_english_summary":"This Act provides a simple legal mechanism to update the royal Style and Titles that appear in Western Australian laws, regulations, forms and local laws. It replaces existing royal wording with the text in the Schedule and lets the Governor proclaim future changes to substitute revised wording across those instruments.\n\nWho decides: the Governor by proclamation. Who is affected: any law or instrument that records the royal Style and Titles, and the public offices that must update texts and forms when substitution occurs."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/royal-style-and-titles-act-1947","history":"/api/acts/royal-style-and-titles-act-1947/history","analysis":"/api/acts/royal-style-and-titles-act-1947/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/royal-style-and-titles-act-1947/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/royal-style-and-titles-act-1947/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/royal-style-and-titles-act-1947/documents"}}