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MARRIAGE REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 39

Qualifications and skills required of a marriage celebrant

  (1)   For the purposes of paragraph   39C(1)(b) of the Act, a determination by the Registrar of Marriage Celebrants must:

  (a)   provide that it is necessary for a person to have a Certificate IV in Celebrancy, a celebrancy qualification or celebrancy skills; and

  (b)   if the Registrar considers that it is necessary for registration as a marriage celebrant that a Certificate IV in Celebrancy include certain units and use certain materials--specify those units and materials; and

  (c)   if the Registrar considers that it is necessary for registration as a marriage celebrant that a celebrancy qualification include certain units and use certain materials--specify those units and materials; and

  (d)   specify that a celebrancy qualification must be awarded by a university specified in the determination.

  (2)   A Certificate IV in Celebrancy is a qualification with that name that:

  (a)   is awarded by a registered training organisation or NVR registered training organisation (both within the meaning of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 ); and

  (b)   includes each unit, and uses all the materials, specified in the determination.

  (3)   A celebrancy qualification is a celebrancy qualification (however described) that:

  (a)   is awarded by a university specified in the determination; and

  (b)   includes each unit, and uses all the materials, specified in the determination.

  (4)   Celebrancy skills are:

  (a)   fluency in an Indigenous language; and

  (b)   the ability to liaise with the following in planning a marriage ceremony:

  (i)   clients;

  (ii)   other members of the Indigenous community, if appropriate; and

  (c)   the ability to conduct a marriage ceremony and to complete and deal with the required documentation in accordance with the Act and this instrument; and

  (d)   the ability to communicate effectively.

  (5)   The Registrar must publish the determination on the internet and in any other way the Registrar considers appropriate.


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