Just make a copy of the original document, and then take the original and the copy along with your original Drivers License, original Birth Certificate or original Passport to one of the following authorised parties in Australia:
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, 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;
- A Commissioner for Declarations;
- A Commissioner for Affidavits
Document certifiers must not be related to the applicant (e.g. their parent, child, brother, sister, aunt, uncle or cousin, spouse or partner of the customer) or the application (e.g. Director of the business, employee, trustee). The document certifier also cannot be a person who lives at the same address as the customer.
To certify the copy of the document, they will need to:
- Provide a written statement 'I hereby certify this document is a true copy of the original document shown to me on [date]'.
- Write their name, Authorisation title (e.g. Justice of the Peace) and sign the photocopy of the document.
All documents need to be certified in the last 6 months and we require one certification statement per document (unless it is explicitly clear that the certification statement applies to more than one document).
