{"id":"tas:act-2013-033","name":"Succession to the Crown (Request) Act 2013","slug":"succession-to-the-crown-request-act-2013","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"33 of 2013","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":31753,"registerId":"tas-act-2013-033-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"Part 1","sectionType":"part","heading":"Preliminary","content":"# Part 1 Preliminary","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Short title","content":"### 1 Short title\n\n> This Act may be cited as the [Succession to the Crown (Request) Act 2013](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-2013-033) .","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"2","sectionType":"section","heading":"Commencement","content":"### 2 Commencement\n\n> > (1)  Except as provided by this section, this Act commences on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.\n> \n> > (2)  [Part 3](#HP3@EN) commences on the day and time that section 6 of the Act of the Commonwealth requested by [section 5](#GS5@EN) of this Act commences.\n> \n> > (3)  [Section 7](#GS7@EN) commences on the day and time that section 10 of the Act of the Commonwealth requested by [section 5](#GS5@EN) of this Act commences.","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"3","sectionType":"section","heading":"Object of this Act","content":"### 3 Object of this Act\n\n> The main object of this Act is to facilitate the law relating to the effect of gender and marriage on royal succession being changed uniformly across Australia and consistently with changes made to that law in the United Kingdom, so that the Sovereign of Australia is the same person as the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.","sortOrder":3},{"sectionNumber":"4","sectionType":"section","heading":"Relationship with Sovereign not affected","content":"### 4 Relationship with Sovereign not affected\n\n> It is not the intention of this Act to affect the relationship between the Sovereign and the State as existing immediately before its enactment or that that relationship be in any way affected by the enactment by the Parliament of the Commonwealth of the Act requested by [section 5](#GS5@EN) .","sortOrder":4},{"sectionNumber":"Part 2","sectionType":"part","heading":"Request for Commonwealth Legislation","content":"# Part 2 Request for Commonwealth Legislation","sortOrder":5},{"sectionNumber":"5","sectionType":"section","heading":"Request for Commonwealth legislation","content":"### 5 Request for Commonwealth legislation\n\n> The Parliament requests the enactment by the Parliament of the Commonwealth of an Act in the terms, or substantially in the terms, set out in [Schedule 1](#JS1@EN) .","sortOrder":6},{"sectionNumber":"Part 3","sectionType":"part","heading":"Criminal Code Amended","content":"# Part 3 Criminal Code Amended\n\n***6.***","sortOrder":7},{"sectionNumber":"6.","sectionType":"section","heading":null,"content":"### 6.","sortOrder":8},{"sectionNumber":"Part 4","sectionType":"part","heading":"Miscellaneous","content":"# Part 4 Miscellaneous","sortOrder":9},{"sectionNumber":"7","sectionType":"section","heading":"References to Bill of Rights and Act of Settlement","content":"### 7 References to Bill of Rights and Act of Settlement\n\n> References, however expressed, in any law that is part of the law of the State, to the provisions of the Bill of Rights or the Act of Settlement relating to the succession to, or possession of, the Crown are to be read as including references to the provisions of this Act and of the *Succession to the**Crown Act 2013* of the Commonwealth.","sortOrder":10},{"sectionNumber":"8","sectionType":"section","heading":"Administration of Act","content":"### 8 Administration of Act\n\n> Until provision is made in relation to this Act by order under [section 4 of the](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-1990-004#GS4@EN) [Administrative Arrangements Act 1990](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/act-1990-004)  –\n> \n> > > (a) the administration of this Act is assigned to the Premier; and\n> > \n> > > (b) the department responsible to the Premier in relation to the administration of this Act is the Department of Premier and Cabinet.","sortOrder":11},{"sectionNumber":"SCHEDULE 1 - Succession to the","sectionType":"part","heading":"SCHEDULE 1 - Succession to theCrown Act 2013 of the Commonwealth","content":"# SCHEDULE 1 - Succession to the SCHEDULE 1 - Succession to theCrown Act 2013 of the Commonwealth\n\n[Section 5](#GS5@EN)\n\n[![graphic image](/image/sc13schp1.gif)](/image/sc13schp1.gif)\n\n[![graphic image](/image/sc13schp2.gif)](/image/sc13schp2.gif)\n\n[![graphic image](/image/sc13schp3.gif)](/image/sc13schp3.gif)\n\n[![graphic image](/image/sc13schp4.gif)](/image/sc13schp4.gif)\n\n[![graphic image](/image/sc13schp5.gif)](/image/sc13schp5.gif)\n\n[![graphic image](/image/sc13schp6.gif)](/image/sc13schp6.gif)\n\n[![graphic image](/image/sc13schp7.gif)](/image/sc13schp7.gif)\n\n[![graphic image](/image/sc13schp8.gif)](/image/sc13schp8.gif)\n\n[![graphic image](/image/sc13schp9.gif)](/image/sc13schp9.gif)\n\n[![graphic image](/image/sc13schp10.gif)](/image/sc13schp10.gif)\n\n[![graphic image](/image/sc13schp11.gif)](/image/sc13schp11.gif)","sortOrder":12}],"analysis":{"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act remained focused on its original, singular purpose: providing Tasmania's formal request and consent for Commonwealth legislation to alter the rules of succession to the Crown. No scope expansion is evident from the version history (current from 26 March 2015 with no substantive amendments noted)."},"complexity_factors":["The Act itself is extremely brief — it is essentially a single consent resolution rather than a detailed regulatory scheme","Its purpose is narrow and procedural (constitutional consent mechanism)","Understanding its significance requires background knowledge of Australian constitutional law (specifically section 51(xxxviii) of the Constitution) and the history of succession law","The legislation text provided is largely metadata/status information rather than substantive provisions, limiting detailed analysis"],"plain_english_summary":"## What This Law Does\n\nThis is a short, formal piece of Tasmanian legislation that does one specific thing: it gives Tasmania's **agreement and consent** (a constitutional \"request\") to the Commonwealth (federal) Parliament to change the rules about who can become King or Queen of Australia.\n\n## Why It Exists\n\nAustralia shares the British monarch as its head of state. Under the Australian Constitution, the Commonwealth Parliament can only change certain laws that affect the states if the states formally ask it to. This Act is Tasmania's way of saying *\"yes, go ahead\"* to those federal changes.\n\nThe federal changes Tasmania was consenting to (through the *Succession to the Crown Act 2015* at the Commonwealth level) involved:\n- **Ending the rule that sons are preferred over daughters** in the line of succession — so the eldest child, regardless of gender, comes first\n- **Removing the ban** on a person in the line of succession marrying a Catholic\n- **Reducing the number of royals** who need the King or Queen's permission to marry (from all descendants of George II to only the first six in line)\n\n## Who Does This Affect?\n\nFor most Tasmanians and Australians, this has **no practical day-to-day impact**. It is a constitutional housekeeping measure. Its significance is symbolic and historical — it modernises centuries-old rules about the monarchy to remove gender discrimination and religious discrimination.\n\n## Why It Matters\n\nWithout this kind of \"request\" Act from each state, the Commonwealth could face legal challenges to changing succession rules. Tasmania passing this Act was part of a coordinated effort across all Australian states to ensure the changes were constitutionally valid."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Act generally","severity":"medium","reasoning":"Under s51(xxxviii) of the Commonwealth Constitution, the Commonwealth may legislate at the request of state parliaments on certain matters. However, the Tasmanian Act itself creates no operative legal change to succession rules and has no independent legal effect on who succeeds to the Crown. It is purely aspirational and politically symbolic, meaning the Act does nothing of itself while purporting to be substantive legislation.","confidence":0.85,"description":"The Act purports to be a Tasmanian state law requesting the Commonwealth Parliament to alter the law relating to succession to the Crown, but a state 'request' has no binding legal force on the Commonwealth Parliament and creates no enforceable legal obligation whatsoever."},{"type":"impossible_compliance","section":"Act generally (constitutional basis)","severity":"high","reasoning":"The Crown of Australia is unified under the Royal Style and Titles Act 1973 (Cth) and succession is governed by UK law as adopted. Tasmania has no constitutional competence to independently alter succession, so the Act cannot achieve its apparent purpose through its own force. It relies entirely on the Commonwealth acting, rendering it an Act that can never independently accomplish anything.","confidence":0.9,"description":"Succession to the Crown is a matter governed by Imperial/UK legislation and the preamble to the Commonwealth Constitution. A Tasmanian state Act cannot itself alter succession rules, meaning the Act's entire purpose is legally inoperative at the state level."},{"type":"self_contradicting","section":"Version currency statement","severity":"low","reasoning":"If the version has been current and unchanged since 26 March 2015, the file should not have been modified on 22 October 2025. The modification date suggests some change occurred, yet the currency statement implies the substantive legal text has not changed. This is at minimum confusing and potentially misleading about the true current state of the legislation.","confidence":0.7,"description":"The status information states the version is 'current from 26 March 2015 to date (accessed 1 April 2026 at 23:11)' while also stating 'File last modified 22 October 2025', creating an internal inconsistency about whether any amendments occurred after 26 March 2015."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Currency statement: 'Version current from 26 March 2015 to date'","section_b":"Authorisation statement: 'File last modified 22 October 2025'","confidence":0.65,"description":"The version currency statement implies no legislative change has occurred since 26 March 2015, yet the file modification date of 22 October 2025 suggests the document was altered approximately ten years later, contradicting the currency statement."},{"severity":"high","section_a":"Act title and purpose (request to alter succession law)","section_b":"Constitutional framework (Tasmania's legislative competence)","confidence":0.88,"description":"The Act's stated purpose of effecting or requesting a change to Crown succession contradicts Tasmania's lack of constitutional power to unilaterally alter succession rules, meaning the Act simultaneously claims to address succession while being constitutionally incapable of doing so."}]},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation remains tightly focused on its original purpose: facilitating uniform changes to royal succession law across Australia. It does exactly what its short title and object clause suggest — requesting federal legislation and making consequential state amendments. No scope creep is evident."},"complexity_factors":["Very short statute (8 sections plus schedule)","Minimal defined terms (none in the body of the Act)","Simple conditional commencement tied to external federal legislation (sections 2(2) and 2(3))","Single cross-reference mechanism (reading-in provision in section 7)","Substantive content largely contained in Schedule 1 images (not parseable as text), but the requesting mechanism itself is straightforward","No nested exceptions or complex conditional logic in the operative provisions"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a **state law** (likely from New South Wales, given the reference to the Department of Premier and Cabinet) that does one main thing: **it asks the Australian federal Parliament to pass a law changing the rules about who can become King or Queen of Australia**.\n\n**What problem is this solving?**\n\nUnder Australia's Constitution, the British monarch is also Australia's head of state. But changing the rules of royal succession requires action by all Australian states, not just the federal government. This is because of a complex legal history where the states are technically \"sovereign\" in some respects regarding the Crown.\n\n**What does this Act actually do?**\n\n- **Section 5** formally requests the Commonwealth (federal) Parliament to pass the *Succession to the Crown Act 2013* — the text of which is attached in Schedule 1 (shown as images in this version).\n- **Section 6** (Part 3) amends the state's Criminal Code — but only once the federal law starts operating.\n- **Section 7** updates old legal references. It says that when any state law mentions the old *Bill of Rights 1688* or *Act of Settlement 1701* (ancient British laws that used to govern who could be monarch), those references should now also include this new law and the federal law.\n- **Section 4** makes clear this isn't changing the fundamental relationship between the state and the Crown — it's just about succession rules.\n\n**Why does this matter?**\n\nThe federal law (requested by this state law and others like it from other states) removes two old rules:\n- **Male preference**: Previously, a younger son could inherit the throne ahead of an older daughter. Now, birth order matters regardless of gender.\n- **Marriage to Catholics**: Previously, anyone who married a Roman Catholic was disqualified from the line of succession. That rule is gone.\n\n**Who is affected?**\n\nAlmost nobody directly — unless you're in the British royal family. But symbolically, it affects all Australians by ensuring our head of state remains the same person as the UK's, with modernised, non-discriminatory succession rules.\n\n**Key point**: This is a **cooperative federalism** exercise. The state can't change royal succession rules by itself, so it's formally requesting the federal government to do it, while also making necessary adjustments to its own laws to match."},"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"}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/succession-to-the-crown-request-act-2013","history":"/api/acts/succession-to-the-crown-request-act-2013/history","analysis":"/api/acts/succession-to-the-crown-request-act-2013/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/succession-to-the-crown-request-act-2013/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/succession-to-the-crown-request-act-2013/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/succession-to-the-crown-request-act-2013/documents"}}