An Act to Establish and Regulate the Peerages and Honours of Baustralia, and for purposes connected therewith

Be it Enacted by His Most Gracious and Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of Parliament assembled, as follows–

Preface

1. The short title of this Act is the Peerages and Honours Act, 2025.

Honours

2. The Crown of Baustralia is the fount of honour and has the powers to award, revoke, amend, regulate, change, abolish or otherwise alter any and all titles, offices, dignities, peerages, precedences, pre-eminences, orders of chivalry and merit, decorations and medals whatsoever, subject to the advice of the Cabinet and the recommendation of the Honours Commission only.

Peerages

3. Peerages are incorporeal hereditaments granted by the Crown under letters patent.
4. All peerages so awarded are in the Peerage of Baustralia.
5. A commoner is any person, except the Sovereign, who does not possess a peerage.
6. A peerage may be granted, alienated, altered, transferred, extinguished, surrendered, granted, fined and conveyed by the Crown under letters patent, subject to the advice of Cabinet and the recommendation of the Honours Commission only.
7. The Crown is the sole entity which may adjudicate any matter arising from any dispute arising from the descent of a peerage, or any dispute arising from the succession to a peerage, but all being subject to the advice of Cabinet and the recommendation of the Honours Commission only.
8. Any person possessing a peerage may, upon writing a written application to the Crown, annul a peerage and its letters patent creating such a dignity in the first place, and with it any and all titles, styles, dignities, honours, rights, privileges and responsibilities for themselves and those they marry or descended from them.
9. Any person possessing a peerage has the right to-
1. bear the appropriate style and dignity on official and ceremonial, and the precedence that comes with the same on official and special occasions;
2. apply for a grant of an armorial achievement with supporters; and
3. bear for their children certain courtesy titles, including that of the heir to the peerage.

Honours Commission

10. There will be a governmental commission known as the Honours Commission, which will make statutory recommendations to the monarch for the introduction or abolition, the inductions and revocations or otherwise any matter related to orders of chivalry and merit, decorations, medals, peerages and titles, and other forms of titles, styles, dignities and honours in the nation to the monarch of Baustralia.
11. The nomination or recommendations of the Honours Commission are binding, and may not be challenged in a court of law, or any other institution.
12. The Honours Commission will consist of-
1. the Prime Minister;
2. three members of Cabinet; and
3. one member of Parliament chosen by random ballot by the Speaker of Parliament.