Queensland Consolidated Acts

CONSTITUTION OF QUEENSLAND 2001 - SECT 80

80 Continued holding of office under the Crown despite end of Sovereign’s reign

(1) This section applies if the Sovereign’s reign ends and a person is holding an office under the Crown immediately before the end of the Sovereign’s reign.

(2) The person continues holding the office for as long as the person would have held the office if the Sovereign’s reign had not ended.

(3) If, before the end of the Sovereign’s reign, the person had taken any oath or made any affirmation provided for under an Act, the person is not required, because the Sovereign’s reign has ended, to again take the oath or make the affirmation.

(4) If the oath taken or the affirmation made before the end of the Sovereign’s reign related only to the then reigning Sovereign, the oath or affirmation is taken to relate to the then reigning Sovereign and the Sovereign’s heirs and successors.