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.