As a Commissioner for Declarations, their primary role is to:
- witness signatures to documents
- certify copies of documents as true copies (subject to any specific instructions)
- witness statutory declarations
Below you will find a list of professions and employment groups for Commissioners for Declarations:
Professionals
- Architect
- Chiropractor
- Dentist
- Financial advisor or financial planner
- Legal practitioner
- Medical practitioner
- Midwife
- Migration agent registered under Division 3 of Part 3 of the Migration Act 1958
- Nurse
- Occupational Therapist
- Optometrist
- Patent attorney
- Pharmacist
- Physiotherapist
- Psychologist
- Trade Marks Attorney
- Veterinary Surgeon
Appointment Holders
- An accountant who is (National Tax Accountants' Association; or a member of CAA, CPA)
- Agent of the Australian Postal Corporation who is in charge of an office supplying postal services to the public
- Australian Consular Officer or Australian Diplomatic Officer (within the meaning of the Consular Fees Act 1985)
- Australian Public Service employee engaged on an ongoing basis with 5 or more years of continuous service who is not specified elsewhere
- Bailiff
- Bank officer with five or more continuous years of service
- Building society officer with five or more years of continuous service
- Chief executive officer of a Commonwealth court
- Clerk of a court
- Commissioner for affidavits
- Commissioner for declarations
- Credit union officer with five or more years of continuous service
- Employee of a Commonwealth authority engaged on a permanent basis with five or more years of continuous service who is not specified elsewhere
- Employee of the Australian Trade and Investment Commission who is:
a) at a place outside Australia; and
b) authorised under paragraph 3(c) of the Consular Fees Act 1955; and
c) exercising his or her function in that place.
- Employee of the Commonwealth who is:
a) at a place outside Australia; and
b) authorised under paragraph 3(c) of the Consular Fees Act 1955; and
c) exercising his or her function in that place.
- Employees of the Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Management employed as:
a) Customer Service Officers;
b) Police Public Enquiries Officers; and
c) Property Officers.
- Engineer who is:(a) a member of Engineers Australia, other than at the grade of student; or(b) a Registered Professional Engineer of Professionals Australia; or(c) registered as an engineer under a law of the Commonwealth, State or Territory; or(d) registered on the National Engineering Register by Engineers Australia
- Finance company officer with five or more years of continuous service
- Holder of a statutory office not specified elsewhere
- Judge
- Justice of the Peace
- Magistrate
- Managers/Coordinators (however described) of the community organisations collectively known as Neighbourhood Houses.
- Marriage celebrant registered under Subdivision C of division 1 of Part IV of the Marriage Act 1961
- Master of a court
- Member of the Australian Defence Force who is:
(a) an officer; or
(b) a non-commissioned officer within the meaning of the Defence Force Discipline Act 1982 with more than five years of continuous service; or
(c) a warrant officer within the meaning of that Act
- Member of the Australasian Institute on Mining and Metallugy
- Member of
a) the Parliament of the Commonwealth; or
b) the Parliament of a State; or
c) a Territory legislature; or
d) a local government authority of a State or Territory
- Minister of Religion registered under Subdivision A of Division 1 of Part IV of the Marriage Act 1961
- Notary public, including a notary public (however described) exercising functions at a place outside:(a) the Commonwealth; and(b) the external Territories of the Commonwealth
- Permanent employee of the Australian Postal Corporation with five or more years continuous service who is
- employed in an office supplying postal services to the public
- Permanent employee of:
(a) a State or Territory or State or Territory Authority; or
(b) a local government authority with five or more years continuous service who is not specified elsewhere
- Person before whom a statutory declaration may be made under the laws of the State or territory in which the declaration is made.
- Police officer
- Registrar or Deputy Registrar of a court
- Senior executive employee of a Commonwealth authority
- Senior executive employee of a State or Territory
- SES employee of the Commonwealth
- Sheriff
- Sherriff's officer
- Teacher employed on a full time basis at a school or tertiary education institution
