Some articles in the Norwegian Constitution regarding the Succession
to the throne
Article 3
- The Executitive Power is vested in the King, or in the Queen if she
has succeeded to the Crown pursuant to the provisions of Article 6 or Article
7 or Article 48 of this Constitution. When the Executive Power is thus
vested in the Queen she has all the rights and obligations which pursuant
to this Constitution and the Law of the Land are possessed by the King.
Article 4
- The King shall at all times profess the Evangelical-Lutheran religion,
and uphold and protect the same.
Article 5
- The King's person is sacred; he cannot be censured or accused. The
responsibility rests with his Council.
Article 6
- The order of succession is lineal, so that only a child born in lawful
wedlock of the Queen or King, or of one who is herself or himself entitled
to the succession may succeed, and so that the neares line shall take precedence
ofer the more remote and the leder in the linke over the younger.
- An unborn child shall also be included among those entitled to the
succession, and shall immediately take her or his proper place in the line
of succession as soon as she or he is born into the world.
- The right of succession shall not, however, belong to any person who
is not born in the direct line of descent from the last reigning Queen
or King or a siter or brother thereof, or is herself of himself a siter
or brother thereof.
- When a Princess or Prince entitled to succeed to the Crown of Norway
is born, her or his name and time of birth shall be notified to the first
Storting in session and be entered in the record of its proceedings.
- For those born before the year of 1971, Article 6 of the Constitution
as it was passed on 18 november 1905 shall, however, apply. For those born
before the year 1990 it shall nevertheless be the case that a male shall
take precedence over a female.
Article 7
- It there is no Princess of Prince entitled to the succession, the King
may propose his successor to the Storting, which has the right to make
the choice if the King.s proposal is not accepted.
Article 48
- If the Royal Line has died out, and no successor to the Throne has
been designated, then a new Queen or King shall be chosen by the Storting.
Meanwhile, the Executive Power shall be exercised in accordance with Article
40.