Marriage Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1988 No. 2761

Marriage Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Marriage Act 1961.

Dated 8 November l988.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Michael Tate

Minister of State for Justice

 

Fees

Regulation 74 of the Marriage Regulations is amended:

(a) by inserting after “statement” in paragraphs (5a) (a) and (b) “, in a form approved by the Secretary to the Department,”;

(b) by inserting after subregulation (5a) the following subregulation:

“(5b) Where a fee has been paid under paragraph (5a) (b) in respect of an intended marriage and the marriage is not solemnised by the authorised celebrant on the day on which it was to have been solemnised:

(a) where:

(i) notice of cancellation of the marriage is given to the celebrant not less than 7 days before that day; or

(ii) the celebrant fails to attend in accordance with the notice of intended marriage;

the celebrant shall refund the fee; and

(b) in any other case—the celebrant may refund the fee.”.

(S.R. 279/88)—Cat. No. 16/13.10.1988

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 15 November 1988.

2. Statutory Rules 1963 No. 31 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1988 No. 223 and see also Statutory Rules 1988 No. 223.

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