Transfer of State registers
28 Transfer of State registers
The Governor‑General may make arrangements with the Governor of a State for the transfer to the Commonwealth of any register of persons authorised to solemnise marriages in that State kept by an officer of that State immediately before the commencement of this Act.
A copy of each arrangement made under this section shall be published in the Gazette.
A register of a State transferred to the Commonwealth in pursuance of an arrangement made under this section, and a register of persons authorised to solemnise marriages kept in relation to a Territory immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to form part of the register kept for that State or that Territory, as the case may be, for the purposes of this Subdivision.
A person registered in a register so transferred or kept who is, immediately after the commencement of this Act, a minister of religion of a recognised denomination shall be deemed to be so registered in pursuance of this Subdivision, and the Registrar by whom the register is kept shall remove from that register the name of any other person.
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