Whereas there has been passed in the present session of the Parliament of New Zealand the Royal Titles Act 1953, which Act recites that it is expedient that the style and titles at present appertaining to the Crown should be altered so as to reflect more clearly the existing relations of the members of the Commonwealth to one another and their recognition of the Crown as the symbol of their free association and of the Sovereign as the Head of the Commonwealth, and which Act also recites that it was agreed between representatives of Our Governments in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon assembled in London in the month of December, 1952, that there is need for an alteration thereof which, while permitting of the use, in relation to each of those countries, of a form suited to its particular circumstances, would retain a substantial element common to all:

And whereas by the said Act the assent of the Parliament of New Zealand was given to the adoption by Us, for use in relation to New Zealand and all other territories for whose foreign relations Our Government in New Zealand is responsible, of the style and titles hereinafter set forth, instead of the style and titles at present appertaining to the Crown, and to the issue by Us for that purpose of Our Royal Proclamation: