Published on Tuesday, 17 April 2018 at 4:30:30 PM

The City of Vincent Council has opted to discontinue it’s Relationship Declaration Register following last year’s amendments to the Marriage Act to recognise same sex marriages.

“In 2012 we established Western Australia’s first Relationship Declaration Register enabling couples, regardless of sexual orientation, an opportunity to formally recognise their relationship,” said Deputy Mayor Susan Gontaszewski.

“Since then the register and supporting policy have played an important role recognising relationships of all types and also in expressing our position on marriage equality.”

The existing register and relationship declarations it contains will be kept by the City in perpetuity. The City will no longer be accepting new applications nor providing replacement Declaration Certificates, however the register can be amended on request if a couple would like their names removed.

“The City strongly supports marriage equality as expressed through our Vincent Loves Love campaign late last year. We are delighted that the need for our register and supporting policy has been superseded and the Marriage Act changed to recognize same sex relationships,” said Deputy Mayor Gontaszewski.

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