✨ Royal Titles Proclamation
No. 30 851
NEW ZEALAND
THE
New Zealand Gazette
EXTRAORDINARY
Published by Authority
WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, 29 MAY 1953
Royal Titles Proclamation 1953
By the Queen
A PROCLAMATION
ELIZABETH R.
WHEREAS there has been passed in the present session of the Parliament of
New Zealand the Royal Titles Act 1953, which Act recites that it is expedient
that the style and titles at present appertaining to the Crown should be altered
so as to reflect more clearly the existing relations of the members of the
Commonwealth to one another and their recognition of the Crown as the symbol
of their free association and of the Sovereign as the Head of the Commonwealth,
and which Act also recites that it was agreed between representatives of Our
Governments in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Union
of South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon assembled in London in the month of
December, nineteen hundred and fifty-two, that there is need for an alteration
thereof which, while permitting of the use, in relation to each of those countries,
of a form suited to its particular circumstances, would retain a substantial element
common to all:
And whereas by the said Act the assent of the Parliament of New Zealand
was given to the adoption by Us, for use in relation to New Zealand and all other
territories for whose foreign relations Our Government in New Zealand is
responsible, of the style and titles hereinafter set forth, instead of the style and
titles at present appertaining to the Crown, and to the issue by Us for that
purpose of Our Royal Proclamation:
We have thought fit, and We do hereby appoint and declare, that so far as
conveniently may be, on all occasions and in all instruments wherein Our style
and titles are used in relation to all or any one or more of the following, that is
to say, New Zealand and all other territories for whose foreign relations Our
Government in New Zealand is responsible, Our style and titles shall henceforth
be accepted, taken, and used as the same are set forth in manner and form
following, that is to say:
Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, New Zealand,
and Her Other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Common-
wealth, Defender of the Faith.
Given at Our Court at St. James's, this twenty-eighth day of May, in the
year of Our Lord Nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and in the Second
year of Our Reign.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Price 6d.]
By Authority: R. E. OWEN, Government Printer, Wellington.--1953
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🏛️ Royal Titles Proclamation 1953
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration28 May 1953
Royal Titles, Proclamation, Commonwealth, Queen Elizabeth II
- R Elizabeth (Queen), Issued Royal Titles Proclamation
- R. E. Owen, Government Printer
🏛️ Royal Titles Proclamation 1953
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration28 May 1953
Royal Titles, Proclamation, Commonwealth, Queen Elizabeth II
- R Elizabeth (Queen), Issued Royal Titles Proclamation
- R. E. Owen, Government Printer