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2002-2003-2004
The Parliament
of the
Commonwealth of
Australia
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first
time
Marriage
Amendment Bill 2004
No. ,
2004
(Attorney-General)
A
Bill for an Act to amend the Marriage Act 1961, and for related
purposes
Contents
A Bill for an Act to amend the Marriage Act 1961,
and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Marriage Amendment Act
2004.
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal
Assent.
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any
other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its
terms.
1 Subsection 5(1)
Insert:
marriage means the union of a man and a woman to the
exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life.
2 At the end of
section 88B
Add:
(4) To avoid doubt, in this Part (including section 88E)
marriage has the meaning given by subsection 5(1).
3 After section 88E
Insert:
A union solemnised in a foreign country between:
(a) a man and another man; or
(b) a woman and another woman;
must not be recognised as a marriage in Australia.