Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MARRIAGE EQUALITY (SAME SEX) ACT 2013 - SECT 10

    (1)     For section 9 (3) (b) (Notice of intention to marry under this Act), the evidence of identity and age required for each person is—

        (a)     the person's birth certificate; or

        (b)     the person's citizenship certificate; or

        (c)     the person's current passport; or

        (d)     a statutory declaration made by the person stating—

              (i)     that it is impracticable to provide a document mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c); and

              (ii)     to the best of the person's knowledge and belief, and as accurately as the person has been able to find out, when and where the person was born.

Note 1     The Statutory Declarations Act 1959

(Cwlth) applies to the making of statutory declarations under ACT laws.

Note 2     The Criminal Code

includes an offence for making false statements in statutory declarations (see s 336A).

    (2)     In this section:

"birth certificate", for a person, means the person's birth certificate, or a certified extract about the person's birth from the register, under the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1997

or a law of another jurisdiction that substantially corresponds to that Act.

"citizenship certificate", for a person, means a certificate, declaration, notice or other instrument of a person's nationality under the Australian Citizenship Act 2007

(Cwlth) or the Australian Citizenship Act 1948

(Cwlth) (repealed).