SCHEDULE 1Consequential and related amendments

PART 1Marriage Act 1949

Amendment of Part 3 of the 1949 Act (marriage under superintendent registrar’s certificate)

11.  In the following sections of the 1949 Act, for “two certificates of a superintendent registrar” substitute “a marriage schedule”—

(a)section 26(1) (marriage of a man and a woman; marriage of same sex couples for which no opt-in necessary);

(b)section 26A(1) (opt-in to marriage of same sex couples: places of worship)(1);

(c)section 26B(1) (opt-in to marriage of same sex couples: other religious ceremonies)(2).