This instrument is the Marriage (Celebrant Professional Development) Statement 2022.

(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.	31 March 2022

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under subsection 53(3) of the Marriage Regulations 2017.

4 Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

5 Definitions

In this instrument:

Regulations means the Marriage Regulations 2017.

6 Professional development activities

(1) For the purposes of paragraph 53(3)(a) of the Regulations, a professional development activity set out in an item in the following table is listed for the calendar year beginning on 1 January 2022.

(2) For the purposes of subparagraph 53(1)(b)(ii) of the Regulations, the provider for the professional development activity is set out in column 4 of that item.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph 53(3)(b) of the Regulations, the professional development activities set out in items 1 and 2 of the following table are compulsory for that year.

Professional development activities
Item	Activity name	Code	Length in minutes	Provider
1	Real Consent — Refresher — Compulsory	22AGD001	60	The Department
2	Knowledge of the Law No 1 — Compulsory	22AGD002	60	The Department
3	Knowledge of the Law No 2 — Additional	22AGD003	60	The Department
4	Knowledge of the Law No 3 — Additional	22AGD004	60	The Department