Supplied October 2016 Additional data requested by CoCA All data relates to Commonwealth-registered celebrants (Part IV, Division 1, Subdivision C) ITEM 1 of CoCA’s request Registered celebrants by ceremony type 1 July 2016 1 July 2015 1 July 2014 Civil Ceremony 8,032 8,145 8,673 Religious 537 590 663 Both 51 51 53 Total 8,620 8,786 9,389 Registered celebrants by gender at 5 May 2015 Number Percentage Male 2,569 29% Female 6,344    71% Total 8,913 100.00% * From 5 May 2015 information about a celebrant’s gender was removed from the application form and no longer collected. Registered celebrants by age at…

October 2016 Topic: Marriage Celebrant Guidelines Issue: CoCA wishes to assist in the Department ensuring the Marriage Guidelines are fully consistent with the Act and Regulations. Celebrants often quote the Guidelines as “compulsory” rather than viewing them as “best practice.” The example at Attachment A shows how the Guidelines and the Notice of Intended Marriage do not properly reflect the Act and mislead celebrants as to the requirements of the Act Background: In May 2014 CoCA responded to the MLCS request for feedbaack about the Marriage Guidelines. At that time CoCA recommended that, with the funding of the Department after…

October 2016 Changes to the Marriage Act 1961 Purpose To advise the Department on areas of the Marriage Act that CoCA considers warrant change and to have a record of these issues to inform any future changes to the Marriage Act. Background Since the Marriage Act was created in 1961, there have been many changes in society and to the Marriage Act. The Marriage Act is inconsistent now in its requirements for the authorisation of marriage celebrants and its regulation of the different Subdivisions of marriage celebrants, even though all marriage celebrants perform the same functions on behalf of the…

April 2016 Workforce Development Agenda Item Presented by CoCA to representatives of the Marriage Law and Celebrant Section on Thursday 14th April 2016 in Canberra. How do ‘we’ plan for a future celebrant workforce that meets the needs of the marrying and ceremonial public and the career path objectives of the civil celebrant?

Notes prepared by Nigel Caswell Civil Celebrants Graduate Association (CCGA) Inc. DRAFT ONLY Meeting of 12 December 2005 @ the Heritage Hotel, Narrabundah; Between  Representatives of the Attorney General’s Department, Family Law Branch, Marriage Celebrants Section; and   Representatives of  the Australian Federation of Civil Celebrants and the Civil Celebrants Graduate Association (Monash) Those in attendance: A-G’s Department: Kim Duggan; Deborah Nance; Kathy Wood;  AFCC: Tony Gelme; Anna Robieson ; Barry Densley ; Catie Wood ; Charles Foley ; Roger Thomson; Rona Goold; CCGA: Judy McNicoll; Susan Parsons; Ann Wilkinson; Nigel Caswell Presentations and Discussion: 1. Roger Thomson thanked Kim…

 Paper tabled at meeting of CoCA with the Attorney-General Department December 2014 Topic: Clarification of legal processes for Deregistration related to the Annual Fee Introduction The Coalition of Celebrant Associations (CoCA) Inc. has heard at least a half a dozen examples regarding celebrants receiving letters de-registering them when they: ·      had not paid and should have known they had not paid ·      had not paid as the banking system rejected their payment after having shown the payment as processed ·      had paid but received a de-registration Notice because of administrative errors in the Attorney-General’s Department ·      went to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, paid…

To: Marriage Law and Celebrant SectionFrom: Coalition of Celebrant AssociationsDate: 2nd December 2014 DOWNLOAD PDF: CoCA-forms-submission.pdf Submission: Marriage Forms from 1st July 2014. In the absence of any request for consultation by the Attorney-General’s Department with celebrant practitioners via their associations or peak body to date, the Coalition of Celebrant Associations (CoCA) makes the following submission. From feedback from celebrants via our website, which is accessible to all marriage celebrants, and from comments made via our own associations, the Coalition of Celebrant Associations (CoCA) recommends: Format Pdf writable formats available to all marriage celebrants - as handwritten forms increase risk…