Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MARRIAGE ACT 1961 - SECT 2A

    It is an object of this Act to create a legal framework:

  (a)   to allow civil celebrants to solemnise marriage, understood as the union of 2 people to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life; and

  (b)   to allow ministers of religion to solemnise marriage, respecting the doctrines, tenets and beliefs of their religion, the views of their religious community or their own religious beliefs; and

  (c)   to allow equal access to marriage while protecting religious freedom in relation to marriage.