New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

CHILDREN'S SERVICES REGULATION 2004 - REG 10

10 Identity documents to accompany application

(1) An application is to be accompanied by duly certified copies of the documents specified in subclause (2) for each of the following persons:

(a) if the applicant is a natural person, the applicant,

(b) if the applicant is a public authority:

(i) the chief executive officer (however described) of the public authority, and

(ii) if the public authority is a local authority, the manager of community services (however described) of the local authority,

(c) if the applicant is neither a natural person nor a public authority:

(i) each natural person involved in the control and management of the applicant, and

(ii) if the applicant is a corporation and a majority shareholder of the applicant is another corporation, each natural person involved in the control and management of the majority shareholder corporation,

(d) the proposed supervisor for the children’s service nominated under clause 15.

(2) For the purposes of subclause (1), the specified documents are the following:

(a) the person’s birth certificate (or if the person cannot practicably obtain such a certificate, any current passport held by the person),

(b) if the person changed his or her name upon marriage, the marriage certificate,

(c) either:

(i) a current Australian driver licence held by the person, or

(ii) if the person does not hold a current Australian driver licence, any current driver licence held by the person (together with a photograph of the person taken and certified in accordance with subclause (3)) or any current passport held by the person,

(d) if applicable, any registered deed by which the person has formally changed the person’s name,

(e) if applicable, the person’s Australian naturalisation or citizenship certificate or any other similar document that is evidence of the person’s Australian citizenship.

(3) A photograph referred to in subclause (2) (c) (ii):

(a) must have been taken no earlier than 12 months before it is provided to the Director-General, and

(b) must be accompanied by a written statement from a natural person ( "the verifier") who knows the person that:

(i) states the full name and address of the verifier, and

(ii) states that the verifier is of or above the age of 18 years, and

(iii) states that the verifier has known the person for 12 months or more, and

(iv) states that the verifier is not a relative of the person, and

(v) is signed by the verifier, and

(c) must be endorsed on the reverse of the photograph with the words “I, [name of verifier], certify that this is a true photograph of [name of person] ” and the signature of the verifier.