These Marriage (Celebrant Registration Charge) Bill 2014 and the Marriage Amendment (Celebrant Administration and Fees) Bill 2014 will be available on the Australian Parliament House website.
Further information will be made available to all marriage celebrants and associations at regular intervals as these reforms proceed.
Updated information about the changes to the Program will be made available on the department’s website in the coming days.
Robyn Caine
CoCA Chairperson
2.50 pm Thursday 27th March 2014
- Marriage (Celebrant Registration Charge) Bill 2014
- Date: 20 Mar 2014
- Chamber:House of Representatives
- Status: Act
- Portfolio: Attorney-General
- Summary
- Introduced with the Marriage Amendment (Celebrant Administration and Fees) Bill 2014, the bill: imposes an annual celebrant registration charge with a statutory limit of $600 for the 2014-15 financial year; and provides for indexation of the statutory limit in later financial years.
- Marriage Amendment (Celebrant Administration and Fees) Bill 2014
- Date: 20 Mar 2014
- Chamber: House of Representatives
- Status: Act
- Portfolio:Attorney-General
- Summary
- Introduced with the Marriage (Celebrant Registration Charge) Bill 2014, the bill amends the Marriage Act 1961 to: provide for a celebrant registration charge to be imposed from 1 July 2014 on Commonwealth-registered marriage celebrants who are authorised under the Marriage Celebrants Program to perform marriages; provide for the deregistration of celebrants who do not pay the celebrant registration charge or obtain an exemption; enable the imposition of a registration application fee for prospective celebrants seeking registration; provide for exemptions and the imposition of processing fees for applications for exemptions; enable the minister to approve forms; remove the requirement for performance reviews every five years of marriage celebrants; and make minor amendments to the Marriage Celebrants Program.
