SECRET UNTIL IN OD CED IN PA RLIA MENT C- First Session, Forty-first Parliament, 60-61 Elizabeth II, 2011-2012-2013 HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA BILL C- An Act to assent to alterations in the law touching the Succession to the Throne SECRET DEPCTA UPARLEMENT C- Premiere session, quarante et uni?me legislature, 60-61 Elizabeth II, 2011-2012-2013 CHAMBRE DES COMMUNES DU CANADA PROJET DE LOI C- Loi d'assentiment aux modifications apport?es a la loi concemant la succession au trone FIRST READING, 2013 PREMIERE LECTURE LE 2013 Advance Copy -- To be formatted and reprinted by Parliament MINISTER OF JUSTICE 90688--20I3-O1-28 Exemplaire pr?tirage -- Dcvra ?tre mis en fonne et r?imprime par ie Parlement MINISTRE DE LA IUSTICE SUMMARY SOMMAIRE This enactment provides for the assent by Parliament to alterations in the Le texte a pour objet cie permettre au Parlernent de dunner son assentiment law touching the Succession to the Throne agreed to on October 28, 2011 by aux modifications apport?es a la concenaant la succession an tr?ne aux- the governments of Her Majesty's Realms. quelles les gouvernements deg; royaumes de Sa Majest? ont donn? leur accord }e 28 octobre 2011. Preamble 1st Session, 41st Parliament, 60-61 Elizabeth II, 2011-2012-2013 HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA BILL C- An Act to'assent to alterations in the law touching the Succession to the Throne Whereas the Cozistiruriorz Act, 1867 provides that the executive government and authority of and over Canada is vested in Her Majesty the Queen; Whereas representatives of the Realms of which Her Majesty is Sovereign agreed on Oc- tober 28, 2011 to change the rules on succes- sion to, and possession of, their respective Crowns so as to make succession not depend on gender and to end the disqualification aris- ing from manyin a Roman Catholic; Whereas the following recital is set out in the preamble to the Statute of Westminster, 1931: "And whereas it is meet and proper to set out by way of preamble to this Act that, inasmuch as the Crown is the symbol of the free association of the members of the British Commonwealth of Nations, and as they are united by a common al- legiance to the Crown, it would be in accord with the established constitution- al position of all the members of the Commonwealth in relation to one an- other that any alteration in the law touching the Succession to the Throne or the Royal Style and Titles shall here- after require the assent as well of the Parliaments of all the Dominions as of the Parliament of the United Kingdom"; And whereas' Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom has caused to be intro- duced in the Parliament of the United Kingdom a bill to ensure that succession not depend on session, 41' legislature, 60-61 Elizabeth II, 2011-2012-2013 CHANLBRE DES COMMUNES DU CANADA PROJET DE LOI C- Loi d'assentiment aux modifications apportees a la loi concernant la succession au trone Attendu que la Loi constitutiomzelie de 1867 declare que Sa Majeste,la Reine est investie du pou- voir executif pour le Canada; que les representants des royaumes dont Sa Majeste est la souveraine ont convenu, le 28 octobre 2011, de modifier les regles de suc- cession et de possession visant leur couronne respective pour etablir que 1'ordre de succes- sion est determine independamrnent du sexe et pour mettre fin a Pincapacite de regner re- sultant du mariage avec un catholique ro- main; que Pexpose de motif ci-apres est enonce dans le preambule du Starut de de 1931: Attendu qu'il convient, puisque la cou- ronne est le symbole de la libre associa- tion de tous les mernbres du Common- wealth britannique et qu'ils sont unis par une commune allegeance a ce1le--ci, de declarer en preambule -que serait conforme a leur situation constitution- nelle l'obligation d'assujettir descrmais toute modification des regles de succes- sion au trone et de presentation des titres royaux a Passentiment des parie- ments des dominions comine a celui du Parlement du Royaume-Uni que le gouvernement de Sa Majest? du Royaume-Uni a fait deposer devant le Parle- ment du Royaume--Uni an projet de loi pour garantir que l'ordre de succession est deter- mine independamment du sexe et pour Prearnbule Short title Assent Coming into force Succession to the Throne, 2013 gender and to end the disqualification arising fiom Inarrying a Roman Catholic; Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the Succession to the Throne Act, 2013. The alteration in the law touching the Succession to the Throne set out in the bill laid before the Parliament of the United Kingdom and entitled A Bill to Make succession to the Crown not depend on gender; to make provi- sion about Royal Atfarrioges; ono'for connected' puzposes is assented to. 3. This Act comes into force on a day to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council. rnettre fin a Yincapacit? de r?gner resultant du mariage a on catholique romain, Sa Majest?, sur i'avis et avec ie consentement do S?nat et de la Chambre des communes du Canada, ?dicte: 1. Titre abr?g?: Loi de 2013 sur la succes- sion on none. 2. Assentiment est donn? aux modifications apport?es a la loi eoncernant Ia succession an trone, ?nonc?es dans Ie projet de d?pos? de- vant ie Parlement du Royaume--Uni et intitul? A Bit'? to Make succession to the Crown not de- pend on gender; to make provision about Royal Marriages; arzdfor comzectedpmposes. 3. La pr?sente entre en vigueur a la date fix?e par d?cret. 60-6i Euz. Titre abr?g? Assentiment Entree en vigueur