CELEBRANT TRAINING

for the Australian Civil Marriage Celebrant

Presenters for Ongoing Professional Development activity for 2010

 

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OPD Obligations

Changes taking place in the year 2010

  • The OPD registration year is now from 1 January to 31 December each year.
  • You can repeat an activity you have previously completed within the last five years.
  • You are no longer required to send in an Annual Return. The panel of OPD providers will provide the Registrar with details of marriage celebrants satisfactorily completing OPD.
  • The activities chosen by the celebrant must come from the list available on the  website of the Attorney-General.

 

OPD Obligations

  • Marriage celebrants must undertake five hours of OPD each registration year (1 January to 31 December).
  • OPD consists of compulsory and elective activities.
  • There will be one compulsory activity each year of one hour’s duration.
  • In addition to completing the compulsory activity each year, each marriage celebrant will need to complete elective activities that total a minimum of four hours.
  • OPD activities must be selected from the activities that will be listed on the website of the Attorney-General.

 

Panel of OPD providers

The compulsory topics covered will be:

  • Completing Statutory Declarations

  • Documents to be completed by interpreters

  • Record Keeping

  • New Certificate of Divorce

In previous years the training of the compulsory topic happened in the classroom by providers.  The distance education mode was provided by the Marriage Celebrants’ Section free of charge.

From 2010 OPD year the compulsory topic is handled exclusively by OPD providers and the Marriage Celebrants’ Section of the Attorney-General’s Department no longer offer the distance education option. 


Contact Vlady at vlady_celebrant@yahoo.com.au, ring her on (07) 3283 8567 - Mobile: 0415 324 982 or write to her Vlady M Peters, Civil Marriage Celebrant, PO Box 394, Redcliffe. Qld. 4020. Australia.