Coalition of Celebrant Associations

Australia’s Peak Celebrant Body

Comments Q 27 on the AGD Marriage Celebrant Program

Below are the 258 comments made in response to Question 27.
They have been grouped into four groups. Some comments have been repeated (with their original number) as they referred to a number of issues.
This is the first pass over the comments. 

Download Question 27 pdf.

Please let us know if there are comments that have inadvertently been put in the wrong category.

Q 27A

20 Comments relating to Marriage Forms

27 0127 0227 03

8 Comments relating to Celebrant Training

27 04

30 Comments relating to OPD

27 0527 0627 07

8 Comments relating to Equity amongst all marriage celebrants

27 08

33 Comments relating to Annual Registration Fee for Commonwealth Marriage Celebrants

27 0927 010

27 01127 012

8 Comments relating to Communication and the Attorney-General's Department

27 013

5 Comments relating to De-registration of Commonwealth Marriage Celebrants for the non-payment of the Annual Fee 

27 01427 015

22 Comments relating to Marriage Celebrants Section (MCS) of Attorney-General's Department (AGD)

27 01627 018

39 Comments relating to Marriage Celebrant Section's provision of advice to marriage celebrants

27 01727 01927 2027 21

10  Comments relating to Commonwealth Celebrant Registration and other matters

27 2327 24

14 Miscellaneous Comments relating to MCS / AGD 

27 2227 25

6 Comments relating to the Annual Registration Fee

27 26

30 Comments relating to the Number of Commonwealth Marriage Celebrants

27 2727 2827 29

6 Comments  about different aspects of the Marriage Celebrant Program.

27 30

14 comments about Registry Offices and Services

27 33

6 Comments about CoCA

27 34

NB: Apologies for the error on Q20. The question was reset and only figures reported are those where the question was working correctly.

23 Non-specific Comments   

27 3127 32

Independent celebrants are also invited to offer their interpretation of the survey data in the CoCA Feedback section.

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