New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WITNESS PROTECTION ACT 1995 - SECT 15

15 Application for court order

(1) Application may be made to the Supreme Court for a court order authorising a specified person or a person of a specified class or description of persons:

(a) to make a new entry in the register of births or the register of marriages in respect of a witness, or

(a1) to make a new entry in the register of deaths in respect of a witness or a relative (by blood or marriage) of a witness, or

(b) to issue in the witness’s new identity a document of a kind previously issued to the witness.

(1A) Such an application may only be made by:

(a) the Commissioner of Police, or

(b) the designated authority for a complementary witness protection law.

(2) The applicant must provide such evidence as the Supreme Court may require to satisfy itself as to the matters specified in section 17.