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You may need to refer back to these instructions as you complete this form. You may complete this form:  \n● Electronically by typing in the required information directly into the boxes below. You can print and sign a hard copy of the form or sign electronically in the presence of an authorised person.  \n● Manually by printing the form and completing the required information using BLOCK LETTERS.  \n● Please ensure you read the explanation in the Instructions for completing this form, including in relation to items 7 and 8.  \nPrivacy notice  \n● The Marriage Act 1961 (Cth) (the Act) requires that a marriage shall not be solemnised unless certain personal information is provided in writing. This information is required in two forms: the Notice of Intended Marriage (under paragraph 42(1)(a) of the Act); and the Declaration of No Legal Impediment to Marriage (under paragraph 42(1)(c) of the Act) . Together with the Official Certificate of Marriage (under paragraph 50(1)(b) of the Act), these three forms are referred to as the Documents.  \n● The Documents must be submitted by the authorised celebrant to the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages (the Registry) in the state or territory where the marriage took place, within 14 days after the marriage ceremony is performed by an authorised celebrant.  \n● The Registry uses the information in the Documents to register the marriage. The Registry will use, store and disclose the personal information in accordance with the privacy laws of the state or territory in which the marriage took place.  \n● The Registry will provide the information contained in the Notice of Intended Marriage (the Notice) to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), which requests the information under the Census and Statistics Act 1905. The ABS only records non-identifying information from the Notice, and uses the information to generate national statistics on marriage and the family in Australia. The ABS does not retain identifying personal information.  \n● The Registry may provide the Documents to the Registrar of Marriage Celebrants and the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department for purposes related to the functions of the Registrar of Marriage Celebrants. More information on how your personal information is managed by the Attorney-General’s Department can be obtained from the department.  \n● For more information on how your personal information will be managed, or to access or correct the information contained in the register of marriages, please contact the Registry in the state or territory where your marriage will take or took place.  \nInstructions for completing this form  \nRequirements applying to ALL marrying couples  \nIt is a criminal offence for a person to give the Notice to an authorised celebrant or to sign it if that person knows the Notice contains a false statement or an error or is defective (section 104, Marriage Act) .  \nYou must give this completed and signed notice to an authorised celebrant at least one month, and not more than  \n18 months, before your proposed marriage, unless a prescribed authority has agreed to shorten the notice period (section 42 of the Act) . For a list of prescribed authorities, [visit](visit www.ag.gov.au/marriage)[ ](visit www.ag.gov.au/marriage)[www.ag.gov.au/marriage](visit www.ag.gov.au/marriage).  \nInstructions on specific items  \nWhere information is not known or cannot be obtained: If you are unable, after reasonable inquiry, to state any information required in the Notice, you should write ‘unknown’ in the relevant space on the form and give the authorised celebrant a statutory declaration explaining why you are unable to provide the information. A statutory declaration is not required for items 11 to 16. These items relate to the parents of the parties to the marriage. 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