The below points provide some broad commentary on the Marriage Celebrants Programme statistics. The Marriage Celebrants Programme saw a drop off of in celebrant numbers with approximately 15% departing after the introduction of cost recovery in July 2014.  More recently, the total number of celebrants has largely stabilised The introduction of the annual registration charge saw a large increase in resignations as well as 534 celebrants deregistered due to non‑payment in October 2014. The number of applications received each month has reduced slightly.  The volume of correspondence peaked in May through September as the team assisted many celebrants with their…