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

Schedule 3   Amendment of the Marriage Act 1961

Part 6   Notice of intended marriage and consent

Marriage Act 1961

43   Subsection 42(9)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(9) An authorised celebrant:

(a) may permit an error in a notice under this section to be corrected by either of the parties:

(i) under the observation (whether or not by means of a facility that enables audio and visual communication between persons in different places) of the authorised celebrant, if the authorised celebrant is in Australia; and

(ii) at any time before the marriage to which it relates has been solemnised; and

(b) may treat the corrected notice as having been originally given in its corrected form.