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The Court is also empowered to deal with applications under the Property (Relationships) Act 1984, [9] the Succession Act 2006, [10] that involve amounts, or property to the value of, not more than A$250,000. [11]
The Succession to Peerages and Baronetcies Bill is a proposed law of the Parliament of the United Kingdom introduced on 20 November 2023 by Lord Northbrook. [1]The Bill proposes to change the law about hereditary peerages and baronetcies by removing male primogeniture to allow female heirs to take a hereditary peerage or baronetcy.
President of the New South Wales Legislative Council: Ben Franklin (9 May 2023) Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly: Greg Piper (9 May 2023) Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly: Leon Bignell (11 April 2024) Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly: Michelle O'Byrne (14 May 2024)
The Parliament of New South Wales, formally the Legislature of New South Wales, [5] [6] is the bicameral legislative body of the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW). It consists of the monarch, the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (lower house) and the New South Wales Legislative Council (upper house).
Succession to the throne in each of the Commonwealth realms is governed both by common law and statute. Under common law, the Crown was transmitted by male-preference primogeniture, [8] under which succession passed first to the monarch's or nearest dynast's legitimate sons (and to their legitimate issue) in order of birth, and subsequently to their daughters and their legitimate issue, again ...
The 2023 New South Wales Legislative Council election was held on 25 March 2023 to elect the 57th New South Wales Legislative Council. The incumbent Liberal–National Coalition was seeking to retain its longstanding majority of seats, opposed by the Labor Party. The Greens, One Nation and several other minor parties also contested the election ...
Holographic wills are referred to as "privileged will" under §65 of the Succession Act, 1925, and are permissible only for military personnel who have reached the age of 18 and are currently on an expedition. Under §66, the privileged will can be executed in writing or orally in front of two witnesses. [9]
He criticises the state government for failing to implement recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and finds the state's bail act discriminatory towards First Nations people, incompatible with the Charter of Human Rights and that the changes to the act in 2018 were a "complete, unmitigated disaster". [35]