sentences:  In this same month a series of legal and administrative changes to the civil celebrant program were put into effect by the Australian Government.Attorney-General Daryl Williams, who left the Australian Parliament in mid-term had, just before he resigned, approved a number of radical changes to the Marriage Act and the Regulations under the Act (Section 39 as it was, and after 2003).The most important of these was the legal transfer of powers over the program from the Attorney-General to an appointed public servant titled "The Registrar".