New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

REAL PROPERTY REGULATION 2008 - REG 16A

16A Ensuring identification by eligible witnesses

(1) For the purposes of section 117 (5) of the Act, a witness is to be considered as having taken reasonable steps to ensure the identity of a person executing an application, dealing or caveat if the witness has taken the steps set out in this clause.

(2) The witness must sight:

(a) an original of a primary photographic identification document in respect of the other person, or

(b) an original of a primary non-photographic identification document in respect of the other person and an original of a secondary identification document in respect of the other person.

(3) A document referred to in this clause does not include a document that has expired (other than in the case of an Australian passport that has been expired for less than 2 years).