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Honoured by their Peers as at
1/5/2008

Alphabetical Listing		Date Conferred	Active/Retired Celebrant	Suburb	Tel Number
	Owen Davies	02/05/2008	Active	Kelmscott	9495 4087
	Beryl Eissens	April 2000	Active	Henley Brook	9296 1418
	Cyril Fenn	March 1978	Active	Wilson	9356 2614
	Dorothy Harrison	April 2000	Active	Kelmscott	9495 4092
	Stan Karasinski	02/05/2008	Active	Ashfield	9279 6041
	John Smith	April 2000	Active	Maida Vale	9454 6903

So you want to be an Authorised Marriage Celebrant!

Do not contact the MCA Inc Est. WA;

All queries relating to course content, structure, availability, appointments, attendance, numbers, etc. should be directed to the "authority" at the Marriage Celebrants section listed

How do I find out?

Before you embark on becoming a Celebrant read the disclaimer below from the Attorney General's Website.

A serious undertaking of Financial resources and 'Market knowledge' should be given before embarking further See Notes Below

All Enquiries should be directed to:-

The Registrar for Marriage Celebrants

Attorney-General's Department

Robert Garran Offices

National Circuit

BARTON ACT 2600

Phone: (02) 6234 4800

Fax: (02) 6234 4811

email: marriagecelebrantssection@ag.gov.au

Note: Changes to this curriculum are now under way with possibly a new start in October 2009. To prepare yourself you need:- to complete and pass 'Plan Conduct and Review a Marriage Ceremony' - CHCMCEL401A (just one unit of competency within the Cert IV.) through one of the many National Training providers (see our links page for a provider): You then need to apply to the Marriage Section as above to be placed on a waiting list, you then need to pass the 'Fit and Proper Person Test' in order to be appointed.

Celebrants will after September 2008 be appointed on ad hoc situation within two months of applying to the Marriage Celebrant section as the 'capping' will then be removed

http://www.ag.gov.au/agd/WWW/agdHome.nsf/Page/RWP3C5026F776D5CAAFCA2570600008A4AD#author

The Attorney General now has this disclaimer on the website

Before you embark on training to become a marriage celebrant, please consider the following information:* the marriage rate is generally stable, although there has been a decline over the past twenty years. In 2005, 109,000 marriages were registered in Australia, which is equivalent to 5.4 marriages for every 1,000 people. More information on the current statistics and trends on marriages performed each year can be found on the following link: <http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Latestproducts/26D94B4C9A4769E6CA25732C00207644?opendocument>Australian Bureau of Statistics* the number of Commonwealth-appointed marriage celebrants has increased from just under 3,500 in 2003 to just over 5,500 in 2007* there are also approximately 20,000 ministers of religion, appointed by State and Territory registering authorities as marriage celebrants for mainstream religious denominations.

Department of the Attorney General
Government of West Australia
Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages
Level 10, 141 St Georges Terrace
PERTH W. A. 6000
Phone: 1300 305 021
Fax: 9264 1599

Postal:-
PO Box 7720
Cloisters Square
PERTH W. A. 6850

Website

Australian Embassies Abroad http://www.dfat.gov.au/missions/