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Weddings Away takes care of all your legal marriage requirements for you.
Australian law requires that all marriage papers are dated and witnessed no more than 18 months, and no less than one month and one day before the wedding day.
What you will need is :
(i) Notice Of Intended Marriage Form - available from any Australian Consulate around the world. Look them up in your telephone book. Or call your telephone number information service and ask for the number of the Australian Consulate in your country. Ask the Consulate to send you the 'Notice of Intended Marriage Form'. Or once you have booked your wedding through Weddings Away, we can send you the Notice Of Intended mariage form.
Once you have this form, fill it out and have it dated signed and witnessed in the presence of:
(a) If you are within Australia - an authorised celebrant, a justice of the peace, a barrister, a solicitor, a legally qualified medical practitioner, a member of the Australian Federal Police or the Police Force of a State or Territory of Australia, or a Comissioner for Declarations (under the Statutory Declrations Act 1959).
(b) If you are outside Australia - A Notary Public, an Australian Diplomatic Officer,, an Australian Consular Officer, an Employee of the Commonwealth authorised under paragraph 3 (c) of the Consular Fees Act 1955, an Employee of the Australian Trade Commission, authorised under paragraph 3 (c) of the Consular Fees Act 1955.
We can fax or send you a form, and this may be filled out with your original hand writing on this form. However, it is not acceptable for you to send us a photocopy of the form after you have filled it out. That is, your original handwriting, and that of the official witness MUST BE on the form that we receive.
(ii) Copies of both Birth Certificates (Passports are not acceptable if you were born in Australia)
(iii) If this is not the first wedding for either or both of the couple, evidence must be shown how the previous marriage(s) ended, Such as, copies of Divorce Papers or Absolute Decree , if applicable, or copy of a Death Certificate .
(iv) If your name has been changed by deed poll - show legal proof .
Then send all documents to us at :
Weddings Away
Level 57
MLC Center Tower
Martin Place
Sydney 2000
NSW
Australia
We will take care of the rest of the paperwork
There is a modest fee for preparation and lodgement of your legal documents by our office.
For any other questions, please email the Weddings Away office in Sydney, or call us. Contact details are at the bottom of this page.
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