Succession to the Crown Act 2013

Succession to the Crown Act 2013

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to make succession to the Crown not depend on gender; to make provision about Royal Marriages; and for connected purposes.
Citation	2013 c. 20
Introduced by	Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Commons) Lord Wallace, Advocate General for Scotland (Lords)
Dates
Royal assent	25 April 2013
Commencement	26 March 2015[1]
Other legislation
Repeals/revokes	Royal Marriages Act 1772
Status: Current legislation
History of passage through Parliament
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Succession to the Crown Act 2013 (c. 20) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that altered the laws of succession to the British throne in accordance with the 2011 Perth Agreement.^[2] The Act replaced male-preference primogeniture with absolute primogeniture for those in the line of succession born after 28 October 2011, which means the eldest child, regardless of gender, precedes any siblings. The Act also repealed the Royal Marriages Act 1772, ended disqualification of a person who married a Roman Catholic from succession, and removed the requirement for those outside the first six persons in line to the throne to seek the Sovereign's approval to marry. It came into force on 26 March 2015,^[1] at the same time as the other Commonwealth realms implemented the Perth Agreement in their own laws.^[3]