DECLARATIONS AND ATTESTATIONS ACT 1913 - SECT 2

This legislation has been repealed.

DECLARATIONS AND ATTESTATIONS ACT 1913 - SECT 2

2 .         Authority to take declarations and attest instruments

                Whenever by or under any Act or statutory regulation (whether passed or made before or after the commencement of this Act) it is provided —

            (a)         that any statutory declaration shall or may be made before a justice of the peace; or a justice of the peace or some other person; or

            (b)         that any instrument shall or may be signed or executed in the presence of, and be attested by, a justice of the peace, or a justice of the peace or some other person,

                such declaration or instrument may be made before, or signed and executed in the presence of, and attested by —

                  (i)         a person listed in the Schedule;

                  (ii)         a commissioner for declarations appointed under this Act; or

                  (iii)         a member of either House of Parliament of the State or of the Commonwealth; or

                  (iv)         a commissioner for declarations appointed under the provisions of the Statutory Declarations Act 1959 of the Commonwealth; or

                  (v)         a justice of the peace appointed for any part of the Commonwealth that is outside the State.

                Provided that no person under 18 years of age shall be qualified to take any statutory declaration, or attest any such instrument.

        [Section 2 amended by No. 22 of 1953 s. 2; No. 11 of 1962 s. 2; No. 46 of 1972 s. 6; No. 10 of 1987 s. 4.]