How To Certify Your Documents

Identification documents must be certified by a person from the categories below. Applicants cannot certify their own documentation. Please click here for an example of a certified ID copy.

• a person who is enrolled on the roll of the Supreme Court of a State or Territory, or the High Court of Australia, as a legal practitioner (however described);
• a judge of a court;
• a magistrate;
• a chief executive officer of a Commonwealth court;
• a registrar or deputy registrar of a court;
• a Justice of the Peace;
• a notary public (for the purposes of the Statutory Declaration Regulations 1993);
• a police officer;
• an agent of the Australian Postal Corporation who is in charge of an office supplying postal services to the public;
• a permanent employee of the Australian Postal Corporation with 2 or more years of continuous service who is employed in an office supplying postal services to the public;
• an Australian consular officer or an Australian diplomatic officer (within the meaning of the Consular Fees Act 1955);
• an officer with 2 or more continuous years of service with one or more financial institutions (for the purposes of the Statutory Declaration Regulations 1993);
• a finance company officer with 2 or more continuous years of service with one or more finance companies (for the purposes of the Statutory Declaration Regulations 1993);
• an officer with, or authorised representative of, a holder of an Australian financial services licence, having 2 or more continuous years of service with one or more licensees.
• a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, CPA Australia or the National Institute of Accountants with 2 or more years of continuous membership.