Section 24

If the parties to any marriage contracted and solemnised under this Act or under any previous written law relating to Christian or civil marriages desire to add to the marriage so contracted and solemnised the religious ceremony ordained or used by the church or temple of which the parties or one of them are members or is a member, the parties may present themselves for that purpose to a clergyman, minister or priest of such church or temple, having given notice to that clergyman, minister or priest of their intention to do so; and that clergyman, minister or priest, upon the production of a certified copy of the certificate of the marriage, may, if he or she sees fit, read or celebrate the marriage service of the church or temple to which he or she belongs.

Nothing in the reading or celebration of such service under subsection (1) shall be held to supersede or invalidate any marriage so previously contracted and solemnised, nor shall such reading or celebration be entered as a marriage in the State Marriage Register.

Where a person is under expectation of death and desires to have a religious ceremony of marriage performed between himself or herself and any person, it is lawful for the clergyman, minister or priest of the church or temple to which that person belongs to read or celebrate the marriage service of that church or temple.

The reading or celebration of such service under subsection (3) is not to be deemed to be a solemnisation of marriage for the purposes of this Act and shall not be entered as a marriage in the State Marriage Register.