Attorney-General's Portfolio Miscellaneous Measures Act 2024 (41 of 2024)

Schedule 3   Amendment of the Marriage Act 1961

Part 1   Deputy Registrars of Marriage Celebrants

Marriage Act 1961

3   After section 39A

Insert:

39AA Deputy Registrars of Marriage Celebrants

(1) There are to be such number of positions of Deputy Registrar of Marriage Celebrants occupied (on an acting, permanent, full-time or part-time basis) by APS employees in the Department as the Registrar of Marriage Celebrants from time to time determines.

(2) A Deputy Registrar of Marriage Celebrants may perform a function, or exercise a power, that has been delegated to the Deputy Registrar by the Registrar of Marriage Celebrants under subsection 39A(4).