Commonwealth Numbered Acts

MARRIAGE AMENDMENT ACT 1985 No. 7, 1985 - SECT 15

15. Section 39 of the Principal Act is amended-
(a) by omitting from sub-section (2) "suitable" and substituting "fit and
proper"; and

   (b)  by adding at the end the following sub-section:



"(4) A person, not being a minister of religion, who is authorized under
sub-section (2) to solemnize marriages is not entitled to demand the payment,
for the solemnization of a marriage by that person, of a fee that exceeds the
fee prescribed by regulations made under section 120 that is applicable to the
solemnization of that marriage by that person.".