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MARRIAGE ACT 1961 - SECT 47B

Bodies established for religious purposes may refuse to make facilities available or provide goods or services

  (1)   A body established for religious purposes may refuse to make a facility available, or to provide goods or services, for the purposes of the solemnisation of a marriage, or for purposes reasonably incidental to the solemnisation of a marriage, if the refusal:

  (a)   conforms to the doctrines, tenets or beliefs of the religion of the body; or

  (b)   is necessary to avoid injury to the religious susceptibilities of adherents of that religion.

  (2)   Subsection   ( 1) applies to facilities made available, and goods and services provided, whether for payment or not.

  (3)   This section does not limit the grounds on which a body established for religious purposes may refuse to make a facility available, or to provide goods or services, for the purposes of the solemnisation of a marriage, or for purposes reasonably incidental to the solemnisation of a marriage.

  (4)   To avoid doubt, a reference to a body established for religious purposes has the same meaning in this section as it has in section   37 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 .

  (5)   For the purposes of subsection   ( 1), a purpose is reasonably incidental to the solemnisation of marriage if it is intrinsic to, or directly associated with, the solemnisation of the marriage.


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