Marriage Amendment Regulations 2010 (No. 1)1
Select Legislative Instrument 2010 No. 169
I, QUENTIN BRYCE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Marriage Act 1961.
Dated 29 June 2010
QUENTIN BRYCE
Governor-General
By Her Excellency’s Command
ROBERT McCLELLAND
Attorney-General
1              Name of Regulations
                These Regulations are the Marriage Amendment Regulations 2010 (No. 1).
2              Commencement
                These Regulations commence on 1 July 2010.
3              Amendment of Marriage Regulations 1963
                Schedule 1 amends the Marriage Regulations 1963.
Schedule 1        Amendments
(regulation 3)
 
[1]           Regulation 37F, definition of registered training organisation
substitute
registered training organisation has the meaning given by subsection 3 (1) of the Skilling Australia’s Workforce Act 2005.
[2]           Subregulation 37M (6)
substitute
         (6)   However, a marriage celebrant need not comply with subregulation (4) for a registration year:
                (a)    if:
                          (i)    the marriage celebrant has successfully completed a formal course of training (before or after the person is registered as a marriage celebrant) in a registration year (the stated registration year); and
                         (ii)    the registration year is the stated registration year or the first or second registration year after the stated registration year; and
                         (iii)    the marriage celebrant enrolled in the formal course of training before 1 July 2010; and
                        (iv)    the marriage celebrant provides evidence of the enrolment to the Registrar before 14 August 2010; or
               (b)    if the Registrar grants an exemption because:
                          (i)    the Registrar is satisfied that, because of the date of the marriage celebrant’s registration, completion of any professional development activity required by subregulation (4) for the registration year is not feasible; or
                         (ii)    before the end of the registration year, the marriage celebrant applies, in writing, to the Registrar for exemption from undertaking any professional development activity required by subregulation (4) for the registration year.
[3]           Subregulation 37M (7)
omit
paragraph (6) (b)
insert
subparagraph (6) (b) (ii)
Note
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