A
completed
Notice of Intended Marriage must be given to your chosen
Authorized
Marriage Celebrant no less than one month and no more than 18 months
prior to
the marriage being solemnized.
Your Celebrant will give you the Notice of Intended Marriage form for you to complete or you can download it from here. The following documentation is to be made available to the Celebrant when you submit your Notice, or certainly before the marriage can take place. When only one of you is available to sign the Notice there is no problem submitting it providing it is signed within the statutory period. The other person can sign it at a later date before the marriage is solemnized.
Along with the Notice you are to provide original copies of birth certificates, or authorised extracts of such certificates. If you were born in Australia the Marriage Act insists that there is no reason why you can't produce your birth certificates.
In the case of persons born outside Australia Marriage Celebrants can accept a foreign passport, or Australian Citizenship Papers if applicable, as proof of identity.
In
the case
of persons previously married a copy of their Decree Absolute ending
the
earlier marriage must be produced, while in the case of widowhood, a
copy of
the Death Certificate must be produced.
Prior
to
your wedding, both of you will be required to sign a declaration, under
the Marriage
Act 1961, stating that you believe there is no legal impediment to the
marriage
between yourself and your partner by reason of:
(a) of you being lawfully married to some other person; (b) your
being within a prohibited relationship; (c) either
of you not being of marriageable age;