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MARRIAGE ACT 1961 - SECT 59 Searches and certified copies

MARRIAGE ACT 1961 - SECT 59

Searches and certified copies

  (1)   Subject to payment of the prescribed fee, a person may, upon satisfying the Registrar that the person has good reason for so doing, cause a search to be made for an entry in the Register of Foreign Marriages Solemnised in Australia and receive a copy of the entry, or an extract of the entry, certified by the Registrar under his or her signature and seal to be a copy of the entry or an extract of the entry, as the case may be.

  (2)   A copy of an entry in the Register certified in accordance with subsection   ( 1) is, for all purposes, evidence of the marriage recorded in the entry.