Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

STATUTORY DECLARATIONS ACT 1959 - SECT 6

(1)

A person may, if he or she so desires, make a statutory declaration in relation to any matter.

(2)

Subject to the next succeeding subsection, a statutory declaration may be used:

(a)

for the purposes of a law of the Commonwealth or of a Territory, unless the contrary intention appears in that law;

(b)

in connexion with any matter arising under a law of the Commonwealth or of a Territory, unless the contrary intention appears in that law; or

(c)

in connexion with the administration of any Department of State of the Commonwealth.

(3)

The last preceding subsection does not authorize a statutory declaration to be used as evidence in a judicial proceeding but nothing in this section prevents a statutory declaration from being so used.