MARRIAGE ACT 1961 - SECT 83 Validity of marriages under this Part
MARRIAGE ACT 1961 - SECT 83
Validity of marriages under this Part(1) A marriage under this Part i s not invalid by reason of all or any of the following:
(d) failure of the parties, or either of them, to make or subscribe a declaration required by section 74, or a false statement, defect or error in such a declaration;
(e) the fact that the marriage was solemnise d in contravention of any provision of section 72, 74, 75, 76, 77 or 78;
(f) failure to comply with the requirements of section 13.
(2) A marriage under this Part i s not invalid by reason
that the person solemnising it was not an authorised celebrant if either party
to the marriage, at the time the marriage was solemnise d, believed that that
person was lawfully authorised to solemnise it, and in such a case the form
and ceremony of the marriage shall be deemed to have been sufficient if they
were such as to show an intention on the part of each of the parties to become
thereby the lawfully wedded spouse of the other.