New South Wales Consolidated Acts

OATHS ACT 1900 - SECT 26

26 Before whom oaths or affidavits may be taken

(1) Any oath declaration or affidavit required for the purpose of any court or for the purpose of the registration of any instrument in the State of New South Wales or for the purpose of any arbitration may be taken or made:

(a) in any place in the said State before any justice of the peace for the said State, and

(b) in any country or place out of the said State before a notary public, or before any person having authority to administer an oath in that country or place, and

(c) in any country or place out of the said State before a British Consular Officer or an Australian Consular Officer exercising his or her functions in that country or place.

(2) In this section:
"Australian Consular Officer" means a person appointed to hold or act in any of the following offices (being an office of the Commonwealth of Australia) in a country or place outside the Commonwealth of Australia, namely Ambassador, High Commissioner, Minister, Head of Mission, Commissioner, Chargé d’Affaires, Counsellor or Secretary at an Embassy, High Commissioner’s Office or Legation, Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, Trade Commissioner and Consular Agent and includes a person appointed to hold or act in the office of Counsellor, Official Secretary or Assistant Official Secretary at the Australian Commissioner’s Office in Singapore or of Secretary at the Australian Military Mission in Berlin or of Agent-General in London of the State of New South Wales or of Secretary, New South Wales Government Offices, London.
"British Consular Officer" means a British Ambassador, Envoy, Minister, Chargé d’Affaires, Secretary of Embassy or Legation, Consul-General, Acting Consul-General, Consul, Acting Consul, Vice-Consul, Acting Vice-Consul, Proconsul, Consular Agent and Acting Consular Agent.