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                    Relationship Declaration Register

                    The City of Melbourne’s Relationship Declaration register is no longer taking applications.

                    The City of Melbourne’s Relationship Declaration Register, a first of its kind in Victoria, was established by Council on 27 March 2007. It provided civic recognition of all relationships including those from the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities. 

                    More than 1500 couples have declared their relationships and had them recorded in the Register in the last decade. 

                    In response to the amendment to the Commonwealth Marriage Act 1961 in December 2017 achieving marriage equality, on 3 April 2017, Council’s Future Melbourne Committee resolved to cease receiving new applications on the register.

                    Couples who are already recorded on the register will continue to have their personal information securely stored and if their relationship ends, this will be managed at their request. Any Victorian couple wishing to register their relationship rather than get married may do so through the Victorian Government’s relationship register

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