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

Schedule 3   Amendment of the Marriage Act 1961

Part 2   Timeframes for considering application for registration as authorised celebrant

Marriage Act 1961

6   After subsection 39D(3)

Insert:

Requests for additional information

(3A) The Registrar may, by written notice, request:

(a) a person (an applicant ) who has made an application (see subsection (1A)); or

(b) with the applicant's consent, any other person or body who the Registrar considers may have information relevant to the application or the applicant;

to give additional information to the Registrar, within a reasonable period specified in the notice, to assist the Registrar to decide whether to register the applicant as a marriage celebrant.

(3B) If the Registrar gives a notice to an applicant or another person or body requesting additional information under subsection (3A), the Registrar is not required to consider the applicant's application while the Registrar is waiting for the information to be given.

(3C) If the Registrar gives a notice to an applicant requesting additional information under subsection (3A), the applicant's application is taken to have been withdrawn at the end of the period specified in the notice if the additional information is not given to the Registrar within:

(a) the specified period; or

(b) if the Registrar allows a longer period by written notice given to the applicant - that longer period.