Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

FAMILY LAW RULES 2004 - RULE 15.09

        (1)         An affidavit must be:

        (a)         confined to facts about the issues in dispute;

        (b)         confined to admissible evidence;

        (c)         sworn by the deponent, in the presence of a witness;

        (d)         signed at the bottom of each page by the deponent and the witness; and

        (e)         filed after it is sworn.

        (2)         Any insertion in, erasure or other alteration of, an affidavit must be initialled by the deponent and the witness.

        (3)         A reference to a date (except the name of a month), number or amount of money must be written in figures.

Examples

1.         The second of July, Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-Four must be written as ‘2 July 1964’.

2.         Twenty dollars must be written as ‘$20.00’.

Note 1    Rule 24.07 sets out the requirements for filing an affidavit by electronic communication.