Royal succession bills and acts
The Crown is a corporation sole that represents the legal embodiment of executive, legislative, or judicial governance.
[1] A bill is not law until passed by the legislature and, in most cases, approved by the executive, Privy Council and monarch by royal assent.
Numerous Bills and Acts of succession were used to determine heirs and potential heirs to the throne, during the reign of the incumbent monarch, and especially before, during and after the changeovers between the Tudors, Stuarts, Hanoverians, and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the present Windsors, all of which necessitated changes and amendments to prior succession legislation to accommodate circumstances of the day.
The 1937 Regency Act came into legislative existence as a consequence of the abdication of King Edward VIII, as such passing succession to his brother Albert Duke of York (King George VI) in 1937, who was succeeded by his daughter Queen Elizabeth II in 1952.
Pre-legislative scrutiny: Joint committee of both houses review bill and vote on amendments that government can accept or reject.
[4] The Succession to the Crown Bill gave effect in the United Kingdom to the agreement between heads of government.
Consequently, to change the law, the government sought and received consent of the fifteen Commonwealth countries that had the Queen as their head of state, under the preamble to the Statute of Westminster 1931.
Amending old legislation fundamental to the British constitution raised further questions about the nature of the established church and the Union between England and Scotland.
[citation needed] Private Members' bills The First, Second and Third Succession Acts were created to determine successors of Henry VIII, in consequence of his several wives.
In response to his excommunication; that Henry's imperial crown had been diminished by "the unreasonable and uncharitable usurpations and exactions" of the Pope, the Act of Supremacy in 1534 declared that the King was "the only Supreme Head in Earth of the Church of England" and the Treasons Act 1534 made it high treason, punishable by death, to refuse to acknowledge the King as such.
On 23 March 1534, Parliament passed this Act, to vest the succession of the English Crown in the children of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
It was also proclaimed that if commanded, subjects were to swear an oath to recognizing this Act as well as the King's supremacy.
As a result, Henry was left without any legitimate child to inherit the throne until his son Prince Edward was born in October 1537.
6. c. 3), was the Act of the British Parliament that recognized and ratified the abdication of King Edward VIII from the throne of the United Kingdom and the dominions of the British Commonwealth, and passed succession to his brother Prince Albert, Duke of York (who became King George VI).
Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry his lover, Wallis Simpson, after facing opposition from the governments of the United Kingdom and the British dominions.
