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Supplementary Explanatory Memorandum

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Supplementary Explanatory Memorandum and Supplementary Statement of Compatibility with Human Rights

This document provides the Supplementary Explanatory Memorandum to the five amendments proposed to be made to the Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017. The amendments it refers to are those moved by Mr Sukkar, Mr Hastie, Mr Hawke, Mr Morrison and Mr Broad. As each of the five amendments share amending provisions relating to definitional and interpretive matters this Supplementary Explanatory Memorandum provides a single statement on the five amendments. The applicable proposed sections in each of the five amendments are referenced sequentially in this document. References to 'the Bill' in this document are to be read as references to the Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 as amended by the five amendments. This Supplementary Explanatory Memorandum originally accompanied the Marriage Amendment (Definition and Protection of Freedoms) Bill 2017. That Bill has been amended to provide the basis of the five amendments (with the deletion of section 88M concerning commercial suppliers to same sex weddings). Accordingly, the references to Item numbers and Part numbers have now varied and the references to Item numbers and Part numbers in this Supplementary Explanatory Memorandum should therefore be disregarded. Reference is instead to be had to the relevant proposed section numbers and Parts for each Act which is proposed to be amended.