Part 3 — Other provisions
Division 1 — Succession to the Crown not to depend on gender
7.Succession to the Crown not to depend on gender
In determining the succession to the Crown, the gender of a person born after 28 October 2011 (by United Kingdom time) does not give that person, or that person’s descendants, precedence over any other person (whenever born).
Division 2 — Marriage and succession to the Crown
8.Removal of disqualification arising from marriage to a Roman Catholic
(1) A person is not disqualified from succeeding to the Crown or from possessing it as a result of marrying a person of the Roman Catholic faith.
(2) Subsection (1) applies in relation to marriages occurring before the commencement of this section if the person concerned is alive at that commencement (as well as in relation to marriages occurring after that commencement).
9.Disqualification arising from marriage
A person is disqualified from succeeding to the Crown if the person is disqualified by section 3(3) of the Succession to the Crown Act 2013 of the United Kingdom, as in force at the commencement of this section, from succeeding to the Crown in right of the United Kingdom.
10.Amendments relating to marriage to a Roman Catholic
(1) References to an Act in this section are to that Act so far as it is part of the law of the State.
