48Application for exemption from celebrant registration charge

48 Application for exemption from celebrant registration charge

(1) A person may apply in writing to the Registrar of Marriage Celebrants for an exemption from liability to pay celebrant registration charge in respect of a financial year, if the person believes that a ground specified in paragraph 49(2)(a), (b) or (c) might apply in relation to the person.

Note: See paragraph 39FA(3)(a) of the Act.

(2) The application must: (a) be made within 21 days after the day on which notice of the liability is sent under subsection 39FA(2) of the Act; and (b) be accompanied by: (i) any information or documents that may assist the Registrar to decide whether to grant the exemption; and (ii) the charge exemption application fee. (3) The Registrar may, by written notice, ask the applicant to give the Registrar additional information, within a specified period, to assist the Registrar to decide whether to grant the exemption. (4) If the Registrar asks the applicant to give additional information under subsection (3), the Registrar is not required to consider the application while waiting for the information to be given. (5) The application is taken to have been withdrawn if the applicant does not provide the additional information within: (a) the specified period; or (b) if the Registrar allows a longer period by written notice given to the applicant—that period.