Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00511:clause:1_2a
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00511
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 2A
Character Range: 8947–9489

2A  Objects of this Act
  It is an object of this Act to create a legal framework:
 (a) to allow civil celebrants to solemnise marriage, understood as the union of 2 people to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life; and
 (b) to allow ministers of religion to solemnise marriage, respecting the doctrines, tenets and beliefs of their religion, the views of their religious community or their own religious beliefs; and
 (c) to allow equal access to marriage while protecting religious freedom in relation to marriage.