Commonwealth Numbered Acts

WITNESS PROTECTION ACT 1994 No. 124 of 1994 - SCHEDULE 1

                             SCHEDULE               Section 3

AMENDMENTS OF OTHER ACTS
Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977 Schedule 1: Add at the end
the following paragraphs:

"(u) decisions under the Witness Protection Act 1994;

"(v) decisions under subsection 60A(2B) of the Australian Federal Police Act
1979.".
Australian Federal Police Act 1979 Paragraph 8(1)(ba): Omit "or (2A)".
Subsection 8(1): Insert the following paragraphs:

"(bb) to perform the functions conferred by the Witness Protection  Act 1994 ;
and

   (bc) to perform the functions conferred by a law of a State or Territory
        that is a complementary witness protection law for the purposes of the
        Witness Protection Act 1994; and". Subsections 8(2A) and (2C): Omit
        the subsections. Subsection 8(2B): Omit ", (1C) or (2A)", substitute
        "or (1C)". Subsections 60A(2) and (3): Insert "or the
        Witness Protection Act 1994 or regulations under that Act" after "the
        regulations" (wherever occurring). After subsection 60A(2): Insert:

"(2A) This section does not apply to a divulgence or communication of
prescribed information that is authorised by the Commissioner under subsection
(2B).

"(2B) The Commissioner may, if he or she is of the opinion that it is in the
interests of the due administration of justice to do so, authorise a person to
whom this section applies to divulge or communicate prescribed information
that relates to the National Witness Protection Program established by the
Witness Protection Act  1994 to a person specified in the authorisation.".
Marriage Act 1961 After section 42: Insert: Commissioner of Australian Federal
Police or approved authority may issue special notice

"42A.(1) If the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police or a person who
is an approved authority for the purposes of the Witness  Protection Act 1994
gives to a Registrar a certificate under section 14 of that Act stating that
the person has received the evidence referred to in paragraphs (b) and (c) of
that section and the statutory declaration referred to in paragraph (d) of
that section, the Registrar:

   (a)  if he or she is to solemnise the marriage himself or herself-is to
        treat the certificate as satisfying the requirements of section 42; or

   (b)  in any other case-is to give to the celebrant a notice in the
        prescribed form stating that the celebrant should treat the
        requirements of section 42 of this Act as having been met.

"(2) The names specified in the certificate are to be used in the marriage
certificate.".