Commonwealth legislation

Marriage (Consanguinity) Regulations (Repeal)

RepealedCTH

This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

121 of 1977

Collection

legislative instrument

Plain English Summary

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What this does: This regulation cancels (repeals) an older set of rules from 1961 known as the Marriage (Consanguinity) Regulations.

Who it affects: Anyone getting married in Australia, specifically regarding rules about who cannot marry their own relatives.

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.

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Marriage (Consanguinity) Regulations (Repeal)

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

Statutory Rules

1977 No. 121

REGULATION UNDER THE MARRIAGE ACT 1961.*

I, 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.

Dated this twenty-fifth day of July, 1977.

JOHN R. KERR

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

R. ELLICOTT

Attorney-General.

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Repeal of the Marriage (Consanguinity) Regulations

Repeal.

Statutory Rules 1961, No. 92 are repealed.

*Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 July 1977.

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