CORRECTION: Priests need not pay to be marriage celebrants

CORRECTION: Priests need not pay to register as marriage celebrants

Monday, May 29th, 2017

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On Friday CathNews reported that priests will have to pay to register as marriage celebrants. This was an error.

After receiving feed-back about this CathNews sought clarification from Internal Affairs.

CathNews was informed that the following approved organisations, which are listed in the schedule in Part 2 Section 8 of the Marriage Act 1955 (as amended on May 3 2017), are exempt and are not required to pay any fee to be registered as marriage celebrants.

Anglican
Baptist
Greek Orthodox Church
Hebrew Congregations
Lutheran Church of New Zealand
Methodist
Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa NZ
Roman Catholic
Salvation Army

CathNews regrets the error.

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Tags: civil marriage role, Marriage celebrants, weddings

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