Footnotes

CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION

[1]        House of Representatives, Votes and Proceedings, No. 159-20 March 2013, p. 2186.

[2]        Senate, Journals of the Senate, No. 143-21 March 2013, pp 3865 and 3867.

[3]        Marriage Amendment (Celebrant Administration and Fees) Bill 2013 (Administration and Fees Bill), Explanatory Memorandum (EM), p. 2; Marriage (Celebrant Registration Charge) Bill 2013 (Charge Bill), EM, p. 2.

[4]        Attorney-General's Department (AGD), Summary of Consultations on Marriage Celebrants Program Reforms (Summary of Consultations), p. 1, available at: http://www.ag.gov.au/FamiliesAndMarriage/Marriage/Pages/ChangestotheMarriageCelebrantsProgram.aspx (accessed 26 March 2013).

[5]        AGD, Summary of Consultations, p. 2.

[6]        AGD, Summary of Consultations, pp 2-3.

[7]        AGD, Marriage Celebrants Program, Program Improvements through Cost Recovery, Consultation Paper (2012 Consultation Paper), August 2012, p. 1, available at: http://www.ag.gov.au/FamiliesAndMarriage/Marriage/Pages/ChangestotheMarriageCelebrantsProgram.aspx (accessed 26 March 2013).

[8]        AGD, 2012 Consultation Paper, August 2012, p. 2.

[9]        AGD, 2012 Consultation Paper, August 2012, p. 2.

[10]      AGD, 2012 Consultation Paper, August 2012, p. 3. Also see: AGD, Submission 108, pp 5-6.

[11]      AGD, 2012 Consultation Paper, August 2012, pp 3-4. An indicative guide to residential postcodes fulfilling the Australian Bureau of Statistics' criteria was provided at p. 8.

[12]      AGD, 2012 Consultation Paper, August 2012, p. 4.

[13]      AGD, 2012 Consultation Paper, August 2012, p. 7. Note: the Cost Recovery Impact Statement was provided in evidence to the inquiry: see AGD, Submission 108, Attachment 1.

[14]      See: http://www.ag.gov.au/FamiliesAndMarriage/Marriage/Pages/ChangestotheMarriageCelebrantsProgram.aspx (accessed 26 March 2013).

[15]      Administration and Fees Bill, EM, p. 2. The last two purposes are not related to cost recovery, which is the main purpose of the Administration and Fees Bill. Instead, these two purposes are described as being minor administrative improvements to the Marriage Celebrants Program: see p. 2.

[16]      Charge Bill, EM, p. 2.

[17]      Charge Bill, cls 6-8.

CHAPTER 2 - KEY ISSUES

[1]        Submission 35, [p. 16]. Also see, for example: Civil Celebrants' Graduate Association (Monash) (CCGA), Submission 49, p. 5.

[2]        Submission 35, [p. 19].

[3]        Submission 49, p. 5.

[4]        For example: Australian Marriage Celebrants (AMC), Submission 44, [p. 4]; Alliance of Celebrants Queensland, Submission 47, p. 2; CCGA, Submission 49, pp 5-6; Association of Civil Marriage Celebrants of Victoria, (ACMCV), Submission 50, [p. 4].

[5]        Submission 35, [pp 12, 17 and 19]. Also see: ACMCV, Submission 50, [p. 4].

[6]        Submission 1, p. 2.

[7]        Submission 2, p. 2.

[8]        Committee Hansard, 24 May 2013, p. 6.

[9]        Submission 108, p. 5.

[10]      Department of Finance and Administration, Australian Government Cost Recovery Guidelines, June 2005, p. 40, available at: http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/finance-circulars/2005/09.html#FMG_4 (accessed 28 May 2013).

[11]      Submission 108, p. 5.

[12]      Submission 35, [p. 25].

[13]      Submission 35, [p. 25]. Also see: Civil Celebrants' Graduate Association (Monash) (CCGA), Submission 49, p. 4; ACMCV, Submission 50, [p. 1].

[14]      Committee Hansard, 24 May 2013, p. 7.

[15]      Mr Peter Arnaudo, AGD, Committee Hansard, 24 May 2013, p. 11.

[16]      Submission 108, p. 4.

[17]      Submission 108, p. 8.

[18]      For example: CoCA, Submission 35, [p. 5]; AMC, Submission 44, [p. 2]; CCGA, Submission 49, p. 3; ACMCV, Submission 50, [p. 2]; Civil Celebrations Network (CCN), Submission 46, p. 2.

[19]      For example: AMC, Submission 44, [p. 5]; CCN, Submission 46, p. 2; CCGA, Submission 49, pp 3-4; ACMCV, Submission 50, [p. 2].

[20]      Mr Alan Milson, AFCC, Committee Hansard, 24 May 2013, p. 6.

[21]      Committee Hansard, 24 May 2013, p. 6.

[22]      For example: AMC, Submission 44, [p. 5]; ACMCV, Submission 50, [p. 2].

[23]      Submission 35, [p. 32]. Also see: CCN, Submission 46, p. 2.

[24]      Committee Hansard, 24 May 2013, p. 6.

[25]      Submission 108, p. 7.

[26]      Submission 108, p. 6.

[27]      Mr Peter Arnaudo, AGD, Committee Hansard, 24 May 2013, p. 12.