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CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS ACT 2011 - SECT 20
Registration of civil partnership notary
(1) A person may apply to the registrar to be registered as a
civil partnership notary.
(2) The application must be— (a) in the approved
form; and
(b) accompanied by the application fee prescribed by regulation.
(3) The approved form may require specified information or documents about the
applicant’s relevant criminal history to be included in, attached to or
given with the form.
(4) The approved form may require the form, or
information or documents included in, attached to or given with the form, to
be verified by a statutory declaration.
(5) On application by a person under
this section, the registrar may register the applicant if satisfied that—
(a) the applicant— (i) is an adult; and
(ii) is appropriately qualified to
exercise the functions of a civil partnership notary; and
(iii) is a suitable
person to be registered as a civil partnership notary; or
(b) the applicant
is registered as a marriage celebrant under the Marriage Act 1961 (Cwlth) .
(6) In deciding under subsection (5) (a) (iii) whether a person is a suitable
person to be registered as a civil partnership notary— (a) the registrar
must have regard to the relevant criminal history of the person; and
(b) the
registrar may have regard to anything else the registrar considers relevant.
(7) If the registrar is not satisfied under subsection (5) , the registrar
must refuse to register the applicant.
(8) In this section—
"relevant criminal history" , of a person, means a recorded conviction, other
than a spent conviction, for— (a) any offence against a law of the State,
another State or the Commonwealth that is punishable by imprisonment for 1
year or more; or
(b) any offence against this Act.
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