{"id":"C1977L00121","name":"Marriage (Consanguinity) Regulations (Repeal)","slug":"marriage-consanguinity-regulations-repeal","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"121 of 1977","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":25194,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1977L00121-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Marriage (Consanguinity) Regulations (Repeal)","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 22.10.0\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\nStatutory Rules\n\n1977 No. 121\n\nREGULATION UNDER THE MARRIAGE ACT 1961.*\n\nI, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Marriage Act 1961.\n\nDated this twenty-fifth day of July, 1977.\n\nJOHN R. KERR\n\nGovernor-General.\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command,\n\nR. ELLICOTT\n\nAttorney-General.\n\n————\n\nRepeal of the Marriage (Consanguinity) Regulations\n\nRepeal.\n\nStatutory Rules 1961, No. 92 are repealed.\n\n \n\n*Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 July 1977.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1737},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument performs exactly one function indicated by its title—repealing the 1961 Regulations. There is no expansion of scope or addition of new policy; it is purely a housekeeping measure to remove obsolete rules."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision (one sentence repealing the 1961 Regulations)","No definitions, interpretation section, or schedules","No conditional logic, exceptions, or cross-references to other legislation (other than citation of repealed instrument)","Extremely short total length (approximately 100 words of operative text)"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this does:** This regulation cancels (repeals) an older set of rules from 1961 known as the *Marriage (Consanguinity) Regulations*.\n\n**Who it affects:** Anyone getting married in Australia, specifically regarding rules about who cannot marry their own relatives.\n\n**Why it matters:** \"Consanguinity\" is a legal term for blood relationships (like siblings, parents and children, or uncles and nieces). The 1961 Regulations listed which relatives were forbidden from marrying each other. This 1977 instrument removes those old rules—likely because the restrictions were moved into the main *Marriage Act 1961* itself, making the separate regulations unnecessary. After this repeal, the rules about who you cannot marry would be found directly in the Act rather than in these separate regulations."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/marriage-consanguinity-regulations-repeal","history":"/api/acts/marriage-consanguinity-regulations-repeal/history","analysis":"/api/acts/marriage-consanguinity-regulations-repeal/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/marriage-consanguinity-regulations-repeal/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/marriage-consanguinity-regulations-repeal/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/marriage-consanguinity-regulations-repeal/documents"}}