New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CONVEYANCING ACT 1919 - SECT 169

169 Statutory declarations

(1) Any statutory declaration required by this Act or the Real Property Act 1900 or by the practice of conveyancers to be made for the proof in New South Wales of any fact may be taken or made:

(a) in any place in the said State before any justice of the peace, commissioner for affidavits, or notary public, or other person having authority to administer an oath in New South Wales,

(b) in any place out of the said State in which there is a local statutory provision enabling statutory declarations to be made for use in such place, then under and in pursuance of such provision,

(c) in any place out of the said State in which there is no such statutory provision, then under and in pursuance of the Imperial Declarations Act 1835 , or any other Imperial Act in that behalf.

(2) The provisions of sections 21 and 25 of the Oaths Act 1900 shall apply to declarations made under this section.

(3) Any person before whom any declaration under this section is made shall state in the attestation thereof at what place and on what date the declaration was made.