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Make
provision about succession to the Crown and about Royal marriages. |
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Be
it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled, and
by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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Succession
to the Crown |
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(1) |
In determining the line
of succession to the Crown and to all rights, privileges |
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and dignities belonging thereto
no account shall be taken of gender, |
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notwithstanding any previous
custom or rule of law to the contrary. |
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(2) |
This section is subject to
the Act of Settlement (1700
c. 2). |
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Roman
Catholic consorts |
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(1) |
The Bill
of Rights (1 Will. & Mar. Sess. 2
c. 2) is amended as follows. |
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(2) |
In section 1, in the paragraph
starting “Upon which their said Majestyes did |
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accepte the crowne”,
omit the words “or shall marry a papist” and “or
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(3) |
The Act
of Settlement is amended as follows. |
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(4) |
In section 2 (The persons
inheritable by this Act, holding communion with the |
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church of Rome, incapacitated
as by the former Act; to take the oath at their |
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coronation, according to
Stat 1, W & M c 6), omit the words “or shall marry a
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(5) |
The Union
with Scotland Act 1706 (c. 11) is amended as follows. |
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(6) |
In Article II (Succession
to the monarchy), omit the words “and persons |
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marrying papists” and
the words “or person marrying a papist”. |
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(7) |
The Union with England Act
1707 (c. 7) is amended as follows. |
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(8) |
In Article II, omit the
words “and persons marrying papists” and the words
“or |
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person marrying a papist”. |
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