Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act, 1927
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| Long title | An Act to provide for the alteration of the Royal Style and Titles and of the Style of Parliament and for purposes incidental thereto. |
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| Citation | 4 |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 12 April 1927 |
| Commencement | 12 April 1927 |
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Status: Current legislation
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| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
| Revised text of statute as amended | |
| Treaty of Windsor | 1175 |
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| Treaty of York | 1237 |
| Treaty of Perth | 1266 |
| Treaty of Montgomery | 1267 |
| Treaty of Aberconwy | 1277 |
| Statute of Rhuddlan | 1284 |
| Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton | 1328 |
| Treaty of Berwick | 1357 |
| Poynings' Law | 1495 |
| Laws in Wales Acts | 1535–42 |
| Crown of Ireland Act | 1542 |
| Treaty of Edinburgh | 1560 |
| Union of the Crowns | 1603 |
| Union of England and Scotland Act | 1603 |
| Act of Settlement | 1701 |
| Act of Security | 1704 |
| Alien Act | 1705 |
| Treaty of Union | 1706 |
| Acts of Union | 1707 |
| Personal Union of 1714 | 1714 |
| Wales and Berwick Act | 1746 |
| Irish Constitution | 1782 |
| Acts of Union | 1800 |
| Government of Ireland Act | 1920 |
| Anglo-Irish Treaty | 1921 |
| Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act | 1927 |
| N. Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act | 1972 |
| Northern Ireland Assembly | 1973 |
| N. Ireland Constitution Act | 1973 |
| Northern Ireland Act | 1998 |
| Government of Wales Act | 1998 |
| Scotland Act | 1998 |
| Government of Wales Act | 2006 |
| Scotland Act | 2012 |
| Edinburgh Agreement | 2012 |
| Wales Act | 2014 |
| Scotland Act | 2016 |
| Wales Act | 2017 |
The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5 c. 4) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that authorised the alteration of the British monarch's royal style and titles, and altered the formal name of the British Parliament, in recognition of most of Ireland separating from the United Kingdom as the Irish Free State. It received royal assent on 12 April 1927.
As a result of the Irish War of Independence, in 1922 most of Ireland was detached from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to become the Irish Free State. However, six north-eastern counties remained united with Great Britain as Northern Ireland.
The king's title, proclaimed under the Royal Titles Act 1901, was:
"George V, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India"
At the 1926 Imperial Conference, it was agreed by the government at Westminster and those of the various Dominions that the existing royal style and titles of their shared monarch "hardly accorded with the altered state of affairs arising from the establishment of the Irish Free State as a Dominion". The Conference concluded that the wording should be changed to:
"George V, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India"
Under the existing constitutional arrangements of the British Commonwealth, it was necessary for legislation to be enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in order for the royal style and titles to be altered; the resulting Act would then extend automatically into the law of the various Dominions. The British Government introduced the necessary bill into the House of Commons in March 1927 and easily secured its passage through both Houses of Parliament.
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